Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Bhakti is a Social Force

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

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

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will force, it can manifest according to the mental blueprint you have created.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.