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Quotes About Force

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
~ Karl Shapiro
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
~ William Woodruff
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
~ Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
~ Alan Cohen
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.
~ Mike Love
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
~ Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
~ Ann Voskamp
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
~ Erich Fromm
Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.
~ Greg Cipes
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
~ Hugh Prather
Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
~ Laurence Housman
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
He chowed down with the speed and force of a well-organised military campaign. He didn't so much have breakfast as defeat it.
~ Maureen Johnson
Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.
~ Maurice Blanchot
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life." Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Senator from New York, 1977–2001, Ambassador to India and the United Nations. Section 36, Lot 2261, Arlington National Cemetery.
~ Max Allan Collins
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape.
~ Max Barry
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they exerted upon the landscape. This was what survived them. A hundred billion lives had passed without leaving a mark since the Egyptians had raised their pyramids, changing the world not figuratively but literally.
~ Max Barry
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they exerted upon the landscape.
~ Max Barry
I felt as if I were blowing my breath against a tornado.
~ Maya Angelou