Quotes About Force

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

We say only the BJP can be the alternative force in Tamil Nadu. Our party is providing good governance in many States in the country and we are confident of repeating this success in Tamil Nadu also.

You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

Britain's police force is institutionally racist. This was the judgement of the 1999 Macpherson report, and it remains the case.

I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base.

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

I think Mark Hunt just has that knockout power, and that's pretty much it.

Drew McFedries was the hardest hitter I've ever been around. A big, strong, athletic guy with power. He didn't have to hit you with a hard shot or load up - even the little short shots could hurt you.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.

I like high impact movies.

When I'm doing a session for another artist, it's a very scheduled thing, and it's kind of imperative that I write a song in that time. But if I'm trying to write a song for myself and I don't have an idea that day, I just can't force it.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.