Geopolitical Forces Quotes

#1. When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

Chuck Hagel

#2. Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Rebecca Stead

#3. I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window.

Margaret Mallory

#4. As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Gavin Bryars

#5. You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

Wole Soyinka

#6. A prudent person after all can pick something
Even from an enemy.

Aristophanes

#7. In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

Stephen Colbert

#8. Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise.

Peter Zeihan

#9. It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

Patrick Lencioni

#10. In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each decision is lost in the torrent of judgments that make up a century.

George Friedman

#11. He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.

Aleksandra Layland