Defeats Forces

Famous quotes containing the words defeats and/or forces:

    “Such simple things,
    And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
    Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)