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Quotes About Forces

Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.
~ Cheryl Richardson
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
~ Edward Bellamy
Men in small rooms, in isolation. A cell is the basic state. They put you in a room and lock the door. So simple it's a form of genius. This is the final size of all the forces around you. Eight by fifteen.
~ Don DeLillo
Heroes need to be challenged by outside forces.
~ Donald Miller
Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
~ Donna Tartt
The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
~ Donna Tartt
Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
~ Donna Tartt
The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections.
~ Unknown
The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections in materials and structures.
~ Unknown
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
~ Jack Horner
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.
~ Jack Zipes
It is easy to boast of victory over ancient oppression, but what if victory has been gained at the price of an even greater subjection to the forces of the artificial necessity of the technical society which has come to dominate our lives?
~ Jacques Ellul
The events I've chosen to record are only the most spectacular manifestations of forces that - out of fear, ignorance, everyday stupidity — are deemed 'obscure'. But it's now an indisputable fact that the most innocent words, the most harmless gestures in certain places and at certain times acquire an unwonted importance and weight, and have repercussions that far exceed what was intended.
~ Unknown
Life arose by order out of chaos and maintains this order by collecting information from the cosmos. Cosmic forces bombard earth all the time, but the movement of celestial bodies and the movement of earth in relation to these bodies produces a pattern that provides useful information. Life is sensitive to this pattern because it contains water, which is unstable and easily influenced. Which
~ Lyall Watson
But the maquis with whom des Isnards cooperated were mostly Spaniards who had fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and had fled to France after General Franco's fascist forces took control of the country in 1939.
~ Unknown
I doubt if the effect of witnessing a total eclipse ever quite passes away. The impression is singularly vivid and quieting for days, and can never be wholly lost. A startling nearness to the gigantic forces of nature and their inconceivable operation seems to have been established. Personalities and towns and cities, and hates and jealousies, and even mundane hopes, grow very small and very far away.
~ Unknown
The presence of the particles of matter , and their motion, determine the local topography of the space in which they sit.
~ John D. Barrow
The enemy's whole plan is based on agreements. When we agree with the demonic forces suggesting things to us, we come under their influence.
~ John Eldredge
A stable society is built on notions of fairness and justice and it's left to judges like you and me to make sure all citizens are protected from the corrupt, the violent, and the forces of evil.
~ John Grisham
Only two weeks before, on November 24, her father's forces had been routed by the English at the battle of Solway Moss.
~ John Guy
another the French triumph over the Spanish and papal forces at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.
~ John Guy
he misjudged the risks. The result was a disintegration of his forces.
~ John Guy
We did not realize that there were forces beyond our play. Now I know they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of Owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in—and they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taking him out of our hands. O God—please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
~ John Irving
Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
~ John Irving