Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

At such close range, even she could hit a vampire full force in the shoulder, surprising him considerably. He paused in his attack. “Well, my word! You can’t threaten me, you’re pregnant!

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.