Quotes About Force

This was the calm. I was the storm.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Mom was the prettiest girl in his small-town high school, with looks that rivaled Grace Kelly's, and her early photos confirmed it. Victor Heller won her over by the sheer brute force of his charisma, by his indomitable will, his outsize ambition.

Of all the will toward the ideal in mankind only a small part can manifest itself in public action. All the rest of this force must be content with small and obscure deeds. The sum of these, however, is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition. The latter, compared to the former, are like the foam on the waves of a deep ocean.

There is, first, the actual intention, operating with the full advertence of the intellect. When a minister wishes here and now to confer, e. g., the Sacrament of Baptism, he has an actual intention. Secondly, there is the virtual intention. Its force is borrowed from a previous volition, which is accounted as continuing in some result produced by it. Thus, if a

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

The Force will be with you," Ray said, giving my shoulder one last squeeze. "Always.

Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.

O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.

It is the natural ambition of the power holder to cast a criminal light on legal resistance and even non-acceptance of its demands, and this aim gives rise to specialized branches in the use of force and the related propaganda. One tactic is to place the common criminal on a higher level than the man who resists their purposes.

Toleration of all sides, of which we were so proud, must be seen for what it is – a negative quality. He who as no real belief in anything can certainly be tolerant and to spare; but only intolerance has any force behind it.

Ao invés de opor aos milhões dos capitalistas os poucos centavos reunidos penosamente pelos operários, é preciso opor aos fuzis e aos canhões que defendem a propriedade os melhores meios que o povo encontrar para vencer pela força.

For suspects undergoing police interrogation, the rulings provide very little protection from coercion, so long as the officers don't use physical force.

Where there is superior force, I serve under constraint; where there is power, I serve willingly.

Sometimes, the most compassionate thing we can do is say no. Every once in a while, the best way to help another person is to yell at him. This is called an act of wrathful compassion, and it's why many traditional bodhisattvas are depicted carrying iconographic weaponry in Himalayan art, displaying a force that is not caught up within hatred, but that sets firm boundaries which a confused mind cannot cross.

Intelligence seems not to originate from some outlandish formula, but rather from the patient, almost brute force use of simple, straightforward algorithms. It

and I was thinking of what it would be like to have such a wound, to lift up the bottom of my shirt at school and have bandages to show, white brushstrokes on belly, when a horrendous force Huhhh catapulted me forward and my neck whipped back and I crumbled down to the pavement and my entire face began to cry;

Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.