Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Quotes about operative (16 Quotes)
And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Amendment XXII Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
I know I'm going against the popular grain because very few sites have a paying clientele, but I don't think free is the operative word, it's value. People are hesitant to pay for something on the Internet because they're afraid two weeks later they will find something better for free.
Faith is illuminative, not operative it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Early that week, someone in the administration told syndicated newspaper columnist Robert Novak that Wilson's CIA operative wife had instigated his trip to Niger. I didn't dig it out it was given to me, ... They thought it was significant.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
The contractor, the provider for this fence was out of South Africa, and they contracted with a company out of California to do the maintenance, and we've just been very, very unhappy, ... We're continuing to hassle with them about getting this fence to the operative condition it should be in. But obviously, last night, it did not function as it should have functioned.
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.