Quotes About Force

I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Spread love and understanding," Reacher said. "Use force if necessary.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

It was part deference to Mrs. Traynor, part force of habit. I was so used to feeding Thomas, whose vegetables had to be mashed to a paste and hidden under mounds of potato, or secreted in bits of pasta. Every fragment we got past him felt like a little victory.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

When man's law disappears or loses its force, nature's law returns—quickly.

The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.

Howard] Cosell spoke in a Brooklyn accent, with vowels that got trapped in the back of his nose and consonants that exploded from his mouth with unexpected force and speed. It was a voice that reminded listeners of a trumpet in the hands of a non-trumpeter.

For many of the same reasons, machines tend to be a force for moderation. They must engage in transactional politics to survive, and that often requires them to put ideology aside, or at least to dial it back, in the interests of holding power.