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Quotes About Forces

There dwells a life in every star; With brother spheres it rolls afar Its self-elected, radiant way. Still throb within the great earth-ball The forces which conduct us all From day to night, from night to day. - - - GER: Das Leben wohnt in jedem Sterne: Er wandelt mit den andern gerne Die selbsterwählte reine Bahn; Im innern Erdenball pulsieren Die Kräfte, die zur Nacht uns führen Und wieder zu dem Tag heran. Zahme Xenien VI.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The God, above my powers enthroned, He cannot change external forces. So, by the burden of my days oppressed, Death is desired, and Life a thing unblest!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
~ John Abizaid
Grief is an ocean, fathomless and wide, and on the surface its most impelling forces arrive in waves
~ John Birmingham
The role of the hero was filled, surprisingly, by the most frightening of untested forces in the market—the mutual funds.
~ John Brooks
Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces that create and uphold life.
~ John Buehrens
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
~ John Callahan
belief in the ultimate simplicity and unity behind the rules that constrain the Universe leads us to expect that there exists a single unchanging pattern behind the appearances. Under different conditions this single pattern will crystallise into superficially distinct patterns that show up as the four separate forces governing the world around us. It has gradually become clear how this patterning probably works.
~ John D. Barrow
If the fine structure constant, that governs the strength of electromagnetic forces, were changed by more than 4 per cent or the strong force by more than 0.4 of one per cent then the production of carbon or oxygen would be reduced by factors of between 30 and 1000.
~ John D. Barrow
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
~ Richard Feynman
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
~ Karl Marx
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
~ Ardel Wray
The executives claim that "market forces" determine their salary. However, as Moshe Adler, in his article "Overthrowing the Overpaid," points out, economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith, writing more than two hundred years ago, "concluded that what a person earns is determined not by what that person has produced but by that person's bargaining power.
~ Edward O. Thorp
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
~ Edward Witten
big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Civilian power establishes all institutions of the state that determine the people's living standards and the stability of society; on the contrary, wrong forces and invisible anarchy destroy that silently.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love is such power that, neither forces and nor gives up.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
None of the magic forces can affect, the real and pure love. Love is itself the supreme power.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
None of the magic forces can put the wrong effect on the real, and pure love and love is itself the supreme power to defend all the evil attacks.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Peace is impossible in the presence of evil-minded and its forces on earth.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light.
~ Eileen Myles (author)
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
~ Eknath Easwaran
To upset the order of nature, and even more the order of God, who, for us, is more natural than nature itself, is to destroy the harmony of forces; and violence, unbending against the rebellion of things, against the more terrible rebellion of souls, is the only refuge of him who wishes to maintain unity at all costs.
~ Antonin Sertillanges
Magic is not illusion, nor is it the artificial manipulation of unnatural forces. In fact, magic is perfectly natural: it is the use of natural energy with conscious intent and awareness to help attain a better understanding of the world around you and to harmonize yourself with the world's energies.
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock