One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural as well as moral and intellectual.

I've always been a person with patience and I don't like to force things.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

I plead for conservation of human culture which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth still mysterious forces.

Save for the wild force of Nature nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

A book is a fragile creature it suffers the wear of time it fears rodents the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet a medium. In a way we are just the medium.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot what movies are not hot what the budget of this movie might be.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

When I was a kid going into the movies you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.