Quotes About Force

At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.

nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

la violencia es real y la no violencia no lo es. Pero cuando la no violencia se hace real es una fuerza poderosa.

El hinduismo y Gandhi insisten en que la no violencia no debe proceder jamás de la debilidad, sino de la fuerza, y que solo las personas más fuertes y disciplinadas pueden alcanzarla. Quienes

Jesus was seen as dangerous because he rejected not only warfare and killing but any kind of force. Those in authority saw this as a challenge. How could there be authority without force?

History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Barbara stumbled, and, for a brief second, took my arm. It was then, perhaps, that a force was released, no less powerful for its action proving somewhat delayed; for emotions of that kind are not always immediately grasped.

The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.

the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.

synergistic relationship of these five elements exerts a force that's

The force that builds up tidal waves, that makes the sea lap at the moon, that has lava rising from the depths of volcanoes; the force that shakes buildings and creates deserts; the force red and unpredictable that sends thoughts like so many crimes seething through our heads, and crimes innumerable, like lice; the force that supports and aborts life — these are concrete manifestations of an energy whose heavier aspect is the Sun.

It says yes, in blue, in foam, in a gallop. It says no, then no. It cannot be still. My name is sea, it repeats, striking a stone but not convincing it. Then with the seven green tongues, of seven green tigers, of seven green seas, it caresses it, kisses it, wets it, and pounds on its chest, repeating its own name.

For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves.

É também prazeroso o que não é resultado da coação, porquanto esta se opõe à natureza. Consequentemente, aquilo que é ditado pela força da necessidade é doloroso, e daí o dito tão acertado: Tudo o que se faz por força da necessidade é amargo.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of the truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

You can't have action without reaction.

The billion-year battle against the force of gravity was over.

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's an engineer's phantom. There's only inertia.

las palabras de mando eran inútiles, y los hombres, agarrados con todas sus fuerzas a las vergas mientras el barco danzaba

I don't know why, but in each mother there seems to be some sort of hidden force. It gives her the mad desire to see her daughter engaged the minute she outgrows her baby clothes.

un sentimiento sólo puede ser una fuente de energía si a su vez es expresión de una necesidad imperiosa.