All Quotes

'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.
‐‐ Michael Perlis

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
‐‐ Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
‐‐ Quintilian

Force always attracts men of low morality.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
‐‐ Herodotus

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
‐‐ Simone Weil

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

Force is not a remedy.
‐‐ John Bright

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
‐‐ Dennis Ross

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
‐‐ David Byrne

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
‐‐ Harry Browne

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.
‐‐ Henry Fonda

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
‐‐ Renny Harlin

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
‐‐ Karen Morley

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
‐‐ Richard Widmark

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
‐‐ Earl Butz

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.
‐‐ Clive Granger

Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
‐‐ Lee H. Hamilton

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.
‐‐ Ana Layevska

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
‐‐ Jack Valenti

Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

Foreign interventions always end badly.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
‐‐ Craig Thompson

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
‐‐ John Millington Synge

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
‐‐ Tom Wlaschiha

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.
‐‐ John Culberson

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
‐‐ Mario Andretti