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Quotes About Forces

We don't comment on special forces operations. And if you run an operation for a long time as we have here, and in Libya, eventually newspapers like the Times report it.
~ Crispin Blunt
Did I think about the risks? Of course I did. Anyone who says otherwise is not being completely honest. The amount of energy it takes to bring a spacecraft to orbital speed, and the forces it endures on re-entry, makes risk impossible to avoid.
~ Leroy Chiao
Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.
~ John Robbins
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
~ Winston Churchill
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
~ Saint Augustine
Most places in the universe will kill life instantly—instantly! People say "Oh, the forces of nature are just right for life." Excuse me. Just look at the volume of the universe where you can't live. You will die instantly.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Throughout history, different cultures have produced creation myths that explain our origins as the result of cosmic forces shaping our destiny. These histories have helped us to ward off feelings of insignificance.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and their antimatter siblings, along with bosons, the particles that enable their interactions.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The universe is knowable and what one need not apeal to mystical, magical forces to account for things
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
with the weak force controlling radioactive decay, the strong force binding the atomic nucleus, the electromagnetic force binding molecules, and gravity binding bulk matter.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
the weak force controlling radioactive decay, the strong force binding the atomic nucleus, the electromagnetic force binding molecules, and gravity binding bulk matter.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
too] narrowly on the Mormon experience to the exclusion of forces operating within the larger society." "Notwithstanding," he proclaimed it "a valuable contribution to Mormon history. . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the development of Mormon racial policies.
~ Newell Bringhurst
Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Such as they are, its ethics are those of Machiavelli's contemporaries; yet they cannot be said to be out of date so long as the governments of Europe rely on material rather than on moral forces.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
You can't have good laws if you don't have good armed forces.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
~ Mike Jackson
NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.
~ Andrzej Duda
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
~ David Puttnam
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
~ Jon Krakauer
These slow-acting and cumulative social forces seem to us to be plausible candidates to explain rising morbidity and mortality, particularly their role in suicide, and with the other deaths of despair, which share much with suicides," they wrote.
~ Chris Hedges