Quotes About Force

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.

Kalbi patlayiverdi.

I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from the death of her mother first. It just goes right on ahead and does whatever it feels like, whenever it feels like it.

Now and again, a frantic feeling seized her with sudden force. It would come on without warning, a type of panic, a sense that there was something she'd left undone, which would have catastrophic consequences if it wasn't addressed.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

La fe es el conocimiento psicológico de que el bien despliega una fuerza que opera constantemente en todas las dimensiones. Nuestros intentos de dirigirla no hacen más que interferir en ella.

problema, me convierto en parte del problema. Cuando estoy bien centrada en mi interior, me convierto en parte de la solución. Ese fenómeno, multiplicado muchas veces, es la fuerza que salvará al mundo.

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return.

The environment is the agent that does the shaking of the sieve.

The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant, almost exactly 1/137, has puzzled many generations of physicists. A joke made about the famous English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), one of the founders of quantum mechanics, says that upon arrival to heaven he was allowed to ask God one question. His question was: Why 1/137?

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

he did not have that personal magnetism, that animal force

La sua cecità intellettuale non gli permetteva di capire che questi fratelli, con istinto sicuro, hanno orientato la loro rivolta verso il nemico primo della libertà: il potere. E qual è il potere che li opprime, che nega loro il diritto alla terra, alla cultura, all'uguaglianza? Non è forse la Repubblica? E se sono armati per combatterla ciò significa che hanno indovinato anche il metodo, l'unico che posseggono gli sfruttati per spezzare le loro catene: la forza.

El gran adversario de la civilización es, según Hayek, el constructivismo o la ingeniería social, la pretensión de elaborar intelectualmente un modelo económico y político y querer luego implantarlo en la realidad, algo que sólo es posible mediante la fuerza —una violencia que degenera en dictadura— y que ha fracasado en todos los casos en que se intentó.

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All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.

as the rain beat the windows like an army trying to get in.

You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns. And in this real world, nobody had more or better guns than America. If the good-hearted ideals of humankind were to prevail, then they needed men who could make it happen.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a party of preachers and missionaries but rather of divine enforcers," he wrote. "Its mission is to blot out, by force if necessary, oppression, moral anarchy, social disorder, and exploitation so as to finish the so-called divine role of self-styled gods and replace evil with good. 'Fight them,' the Koran says, 'until there is no more oppression, and all submission is made to God alone.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and non-stick frying pans.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.