Famous Quotes & Sayings

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

Tim Pawlenty

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Win Butler

I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.

We don't know what's going to happen yet but we do know the trend lines are going down for the work force and up for demand.

Jeff Fisher

We'll see how it goes. His health really wasn't a factor. The other side of that is had he been struggling and ailing with something and a question before the game, we would've been forced to have a third quarterback.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself

Marianne Williamson

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Muhammad Ali

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.

Jerry Jones

The proposal was a mean mother. It really forced us to make some adjustments.

Tina stepped it up in the second half. She hit some big outside shots and forced Fairhaven from sagging as much inside. She had a nice game.

Time Warner recognizes the value of Maine's work force.

Jeremy Corbyn

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

Terence

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Paulo Costanzo

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

Megan Fox

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.

Mario Andretti

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you - let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don't force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you're correct.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

We just didn't make enough plays. We didn't force enough turnovers.

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

Paul Fleischman

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

Richie Sambora

I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

We were going with a triangle-and-two and a diamond-and-one. It's like pick-your-poison with them. We wanted to force the other kids to knock down shots and they did. We left people wide open.

Hosni Mubarak

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

Bill Belichick

We know Richard is a pretty good force inside. He has been for four years. We thought we could get some force from the outside with Jarvis and Rosie (Rosevelt Colvin).

Rich Rodriguez

We know people can outnumber you in the box. We will be forced to pass, and we'll have to do so. That will be an important part of the summer, how the quarterbacks and wide receivers work together, when we can't be around them.