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Quotes About Force

Q: How can you tell you're a redneck Jedi? A: You've uttered the phrase, "May the force be with y'all.
~ Scott McNeely
THE WIND BLEW strong
~ Scott O'Dell
What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
~ Scott Russell Sanders
I am the wind...I am death.
~ Scott Sigler
Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike and welt on the hand of that heathen brute was like barbed steel.
~ Seamus Heaney
It's only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for modern physics.
~ Sean Carroll
I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.
~ Donald Trump
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
~ Robert Browning
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.
~ Robert McNamara
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
~ Roger Clemens
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.
~ Kedar Joshi
The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.
~ Michael Scott
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
~ Mark Twain
Necessity knows no law.
~ Mark Twain
We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower—an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force—but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project.
~ Mark Twain
You should have seen the wave go to pieces and scatter! This was a finer sight than the other one.
~ Mark Twain
I shot the current through all the fences and struck the whole host dead in their tracks! There was a groan you could hear! It voiced the death pang of eleven thousand
~ Mark Twain
No doubt speculation will continue for a long time over what force alters and orders the dimensions of that place.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. Their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, and their spirits came towards me, into my arms.
~ Markus Zusak
In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
~ Martha N. Beck
Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.
~ Martin Amis
Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.
~ Martin Amis