Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

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

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

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

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.