Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
