Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Barry Ritholtz

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

Marianne Williamson

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

We only have three games left and we would like to win them all of course. The girls are hoping to make it to play the undefeated Montpelier and force their first loss. We will play them next week.

Ronde Barber

We obviously forced him into a lot of mistakes.

We picked it up defensively, and that made us get it going offensively, too. Their 3-2 zone gave us some problems in the first quarter and part of the second, but we settled down and were able to start to penetrate. We stopped trying to force everything.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Jalal Talabani

Those who think terrorism in Iraq is the result of the presence of multinational forces are wrong,

Pieter Zeeman

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

Peter Rodman

We think that by and large the Iraqi security forces have performed well under a very severe test.

Larry Coker

We didn't need to force the ball. We had timeouts left and probably could have thrown something underneath.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Courtney Love

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature....

David Levithan

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

Though not all people leaving the work force leave the area, a persistent reduction in the labor force may indicate an outward migration of skilled labor.

Seymour Cassel

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

What we are hoping for is for somebody to step up and force us to move them up to No. 1 and start winning at No. 1.

Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him to his left all night and got him frustrated. Not many teams have been able to shut him down. He is really a special player.

We tried to pressure them three-quarter court. We tried to pick up the pace and force a lot of turnovers, we were really where we wanted to be tonight.

Matt Murphy

We tried to force them into perimeter shots, but then they hit 10 three's.

We tried to force him into tough shots, which we did. He's like the head of the dragon; if we take him away, then we'll probably get a victory.

We just played our game and played together. We really wanted to push the inside force because we knew we could.

It's really to maintain stability of the U.S. forces during the Iraqi national elections.

It's sad. You can't force someone to take medications.

It's possible to be a major force, even if you don't concentrate on the U.S..

It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play with that. Nothing at all has surprised me so far. We just have to learn to play in traffic.

As she got older and wiser, she was able to kick it back out and we would get it back into her. She was a force and could take over a game.

Joan Chen

All my girlfriends were learning musical instruments - forced to learn musical instruments because if they knew a musical instrument, they would be in the performance troupe. Even if they were sent down. Then they wouldn't be in the fields. Then they'd probably be treated a little better. That was the hope.

Donald Rumsfeld

The more troops you have, the more targets you have, and the more people you might get killed. The more troops you have, the more of an occupying power you are, the heavier footprint, the more force protection you need, the more logistics you need and the more intrusive you are on the people of that country.

It's just not fair. She has options in this. As a man, I have no options and am forced to live with her choices.

It's a somewhat controversial issue. We wanted to have a vote rather than force 'Big Brother' on the city.

Blaise Pascal

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Force him to think. When a guy like him can just sit back in the pocket, go through his reads, he'll pick you apart. You have to get a quarterback on the run a little bit.