Best force & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.”

Ifs Should States Fighting Force Nations United United States Gone Middle Iraq Canada United Nations Neighbour Multinationals Muddle

Author:Peter MacKay

“If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.”

Ifs Feels Force Minutes Couple

Author:Dean Norris

“The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.”

Ifs World Giving War Moving Force Months Seven Saddam Hussein Tanks Seven Months

Author:Ralph Peters

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.”

Ifs Force Difficult Study Progress Block Discouraged

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there are powers that interfere with those who seek enlightenment, there are forces that will help.”

Ifs Helping Force Study Serious Enlightenment Conquer Interfere

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you when you've reached that critical moment and you're at a crossroads of knowledge.”

Ifs Made Moments Helping Strong Force Nature Buddhism Plant Critical Aids Very Strong Crossroads Critical Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.”

Ifs Way Trying Humans Art Matter Earth Force Human Beings Truth Is Degrees Ocean Bigger Boat Rhythm Martial Arts Academic Ninja Wild Places

Author:Rachael Taylor

“Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.”

Ifs Use Force Clear Members Approach Engaged Permit Articles Conventions Civilians Coalitions Armed Forces Interrogation Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.”

Ifs Believe Force Comedy Effects Soldier Troops Armed Forces

Author:Al Franken

“I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Reason Force Interest Situation Clear Effects Judgment Resources Careful Commit Mogadishu

Author:Anthony Zinni

“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

People Ifs Doe Said Force Interesting Century Argument Claims Intelligent Surprise Terrorism Terrorist Surprising 21st Century Very Interesting Surprise Me Appease Spawn

Author:Meles Zenawi

“If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.”

Ifs Mind Hard Evil Force Moral Degrees Assuming Grants Brutes Degenerates

Author:John Galt

“You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.”

Ifs Want Real Helping Force

Book:The Secret Daily Teachings

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!”

Ifs Age Force Phrases Pregnant Quotations Lamps Thoughts On Life Forces Of Nature

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.”

People Ifs Should Different Play Shows Hands Used Force Powerful Watches Television Fool Police Mediums Something Better Sitcom

Author:Roone Arledge

“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”

Ifs Trying Beautiful Force Steps Broken Keys Shots Flow Performances Piano Hitting Really Beautiful Archery Not Pretty

Author:Miranda Leek

“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.”

Ifs Way Should War Strong Force Lines Principles Military Policy Position Resistance Opponents Climbs Retreat Ladders

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.”

Ifs Might Force Ability Power Position Coerce

Book:The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

Source: The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

“If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.”

Ifs Mind Persons Shows Hate Force Results Revenge Yield Controlled Sympathy

Author:Virchand Gandhi

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Problem Wanted Names Force Powerful Planets Environmental Surface Engaged Most Powerful Sunlight Temperature Theological

Author:Bill McKibben

“What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Humans Ideas Hands Bigs Happens Force Powerful Environment Rights Agree Entrepreneur Human Rights Spread Entrepreneurship Hotel Most Powerful Steel Big Ideas

Author:Bill Drayton

“At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.”

Ifs Thinking Use Force Military Consequence Confusion Regimes Misunderstanding Military Force

Author:Colin Powell

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.”

Ifs Beautiful Names Force Glory Instruments Tongue Destroyed Contemplation Contemplating Egoism

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.”

Ifs Doe Force Walks Fire Materials Workers Cards Frying Frying Pans

Author:Friedrich Engels

“If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.”

Ifs Force Enjoy Gun Sticks Depth Breadth Multi Tasking

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Ends School Purpose Force Students Evolution Strategy Accomplish

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.”

Ifs Needs Doe Force Nations Process Technology Successful Environment Institutions Strategy Structure Threat Evolve Adaptability Armed Forces Changing Environment

Author:Anthony Principi

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.”

Ifs Children Suffering Force Nations Interest Community Materials Involved Capacity Affair Welfare Destructive Enlightened Neglect Citizenship Protective

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”

“Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.”

Ifs Knows Believe Artist Fighting Force Rocks Currents Bows Rapids

Author:Arno Hintjens

“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.”

People Ifs Giving Feels States Play Force Power Issues Violence Comfort Draws Clouds Refuse Distinction Elephants Comforting Rabbits

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Years Kind Mean I Can Hands Force Principles Land Produce Citizens Equal Injustice Substance Soil Progressive Farmers Unkind Robbers Robbing Unkindness

Author:George Washington Carver

“I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you... That can be an awesome motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One (being jealous) has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.”

“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Ends Sometimes Force Parent Movement Amount Hatred Divorce Parenthood Homosexual Baggage Instability

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.”

Source: When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression

“If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people became increasingly 'moral', since lethal force is usually imminent. So far from moral fervour being an alternative to force, it is frequently the overture, the accompaniment and the memorial to it.”

People Ifs Force Moral Instruments Alternatives Judgement Ducks Memorial Moral Judgement

Author:Charles Hampden-Turner

“If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.”

Ifs World Feelings Political Force Islam Depth Encounters Iran Brotherhood Doomed Hamas Muslim World Hezbollah Muslim Brotherhood

Book:The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”

Ifs Feels Doe Matter Pain Suffering Force Lines Ability Doubt Cry Greatness Weak Slave Internals Distress Weak Women

Book:The Gay Science

Source: The Gay Science

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

Ifs Men Should Long Country Government Would Be Law Force Powerful Doubt Groups Judging Citizens Safe Constitution Court Threat Neighbor Command Entitled Prominent Unruly Boisterous

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”

Ifs Mind Fall Force Pieces Driving Injured Driving Force

Book:Strindberg, Five Plays

Source: Strindberg, Five Plays

“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.”

“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”

Ifs World Force Fiction Class Middle Finished Middle Class Angst Grappling Middle Class Family

Author:J. M. Ledgard

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