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I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.
Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.
I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
I don't force reinvention. I play with silhouette and color, since Indian as well as Caribbean women have a penchant for these.
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
I'm terrified of the unknown, which is a driving force for me. I like this idea that the things that terrify us also draw us in.
How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.
Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.
The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.
I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.