Top 1200 Dark Forces Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.

That a team like Barcelona thinks of you is a source of pride and forces you to work harder.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

The name 'Fojian' says it all. There was a time when each family had a person in the defence forces.

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.

For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

I certainly hope that we can all continue to be forces for good after leaving the White House.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.