“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.” ForceLinesRoomsFourNew YorkSeasonsBarsLocalsMealsLunchMinorsNoonReservationsPinnacleSierraNapkinsWhitneyZenithFour Seasons Author:Raymond Sokolov
“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.” WayWarStrongForceNationsPeaceWaterFourSecurityCitizensProtectEssentialsDiversityWeaknessFellowsInternationalActiveDefenseCommandBitterRelyResolveInvitesReservesFlexibilityNavigateArmed ForcesForbearanceBitter ExperienceDetente Author:Gerald R. Ford
“The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.” MenMovingUniverseForceFocusFourSpecialDesignEvolutionIncludingPreservesDimensionsDegradeBiosphere Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?” IfsShouldStillsMightFightingForceCitiesMorningGoneSuccessfulFourWeekStreetsWalkingArmyWake UpRoseShouldersLatterOverwhelmingCollapseSaddamRevoltRiflesBaghdadMilitiaOverwhelming Force Author:Robert Fisk
“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.” CountryAbleLastsFormPoliticalCertainForceProcessCommunityPowerfulFourSecurityCrimePositionGrewActivityAreasConcernDecadesCriminalsObjectivesOur CountryCrushProportionSuppressingSecurity ForcesSyndicate Author:Nelson Mandela
“One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?” IfsWorldMindLittlesDoeEnoughTogetherUniverseForceBitsFourCrazyDesignFitLittle BitBillionsComplexityCosmosOur WorldGlimpseGalaxyPrecision Author:Morgan Freeman
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.” WritingForceFourPagesFingersThroat Author:Ray Bradbury
“Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.” ShouldBigsForcePowerfulFourWeekendMondayFriday Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.” FoundForceWaterDecisionPovertyFourRiskSecurityDiseaseHundredUniversalThreatClimateClimate ChangeIncludingTerrorismInequalityAddressesMakersDiverseFamineLoomingDecision MakersFresh Water Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.” StillsGovernmentForceStruggleFourMonthsTownsIraqDesertThirtyWildernessDevicesMexicoSeptemberEasternLitFacilityBlastOaksExplosivesAcresTennesseeRidgesNew Mexico Author:George Will