“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.” MayHas BeensHardPlayValuesForceChallengesProgressHonestyHard WorkDependsReturnQuietFairsInstrumentsCuriosityLoyaltyToleranceInaugurationInauguralFair Play Author:Barack Obama
“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.” IfsWritingYearsHumansHeartMightHumanityFallForcePerfectConsciousnessFiveQuietYears AgoInsightObservationFive YearsMatureHuman HeartBetter Than YouSentimentality Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.” IfsHandsEarthForceStarsGeniusQuietRedOvercomingCalmStrikesTerrificBoltsVolcanoesGravitationQuiet Strength Author:Peter Bayne
“Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.” PeopleCountryMightStrongForceRepublicanQuietAnxiousEducateStrong MindStrong Minded Author:Thomas Davis
“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.” IfsWritingYearsForcePerfectFiveQuietYears AgoFive YearsMatureBetter Than You Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.” KindForcePureQuietAll KindsSincerity Author:Sri Aurobindo
“The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsHas BeensStatesMomentsGovernmentTurnsForceRaceMediaTrumpQuietHappeningsShadowArmySupporterFuriousSabotageInvisibility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.” WayFirstsLooksKindLongStillsEyeBeautifulUsedLeftForceDarkWhiteHairQuietKissingFirst TimeRedAngryObviousRageShouldersUsed To BeCoveredSwimmingScarTattooConstellationsAccessoriesMiaFreckles Book:If I Stay Source: If I Stay
“She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body.” IfsLongReasonBodyEyeAbleFacesTurnsForceWalksStupidArmsQuietHis EyesRelaxOver ItWarmthSecondsGesturesGet OverWrapsMeasuringWeighingDauntless Author:Veronica Roth