Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

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.

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"?

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by 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?

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

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.

Bhakti is a Social Force

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

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

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.

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