#forces

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself. ↗

— Robert Towne

#almost #develop #dialogue #drawn #ear

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#aid #boldly #come #forces #unseen

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#against #cause #forces #get #i

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. ↗

— Rihanna

#am #business #child #forces #i

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done. ↗

— Zev Yaroslavsky

#easy #forces #marshal #mean #our

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. ↗

— Peter Pace

#armed forces #deserve #does #fighting #forces

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#our #protect #states #united #united states