Pastoral Resources

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

When in doubt, use brute force.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.