Quotes About Force

True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one.

Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.

in many ways the UnDead are strong. He have always

The horror of 9/11 represented the end of Empire, a shock that moved us out of the twentieth century's binary Cold War thinking (The center will not hold) and into a world where there was, and is, no center; our enemies are insurgent and decentralized, our media also decentralized and insurgent. The culture seemed like it no longer belonged to the titans but instead to whoever could seize its attention with whatever immediacy and force.

The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.

Cause-effect looks back and asks, "What caused this?" Purpose looks up or ahead, and asks, "And why was it caused? For what purpose? For what end?" Cause-effect looks for a force pushing events from behind. Purpose looks for a pattern or design or intention or meaning pulling events from ahead, guiding them from above, enriching them from within.

Leonard Read noted admiringly that her simple and unobjectionable principle that no one ought to initiate physical force against another would, if applied "to present-day practices . . . be shocking to many persons.

But the gravitational attraction between two smaller things, like two electrons, is a million billion billion billion billion times weaker than their electromagnetic repulsion.

Since gravity and acceleration are equivalent, if you feel gravity's influence, you must be accelerating. Einstein argued that only those observers who feel no force at all—including the force of gravity—are justified in declaring that they are not accelerating.

For long lifetimes marked by the hulks of ruined planets, man was a geological and ecological force without knowing it, with little awareness of his own strength. — PARDOT KYNES, The Long

Law always moves in the direction of protecting the strong and oppressing the weak. Dependence upon force corrodes justice. — CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Precepts of Civilization

All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you.

Matter can simultaneously be defined as a solid (particle) and as an immaterial force field (wave).

Figure 3.3 Newton's drawing of a cannon on a mountain In Newton's famous cannon-on-a-mountain sketch, the dropped cannonball falls straight downward, while those fired with larger

Racism is a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: "Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one's talent." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae

We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.

There was a madness in the scheme of life that men were forced to accept either with resigned fury or blunt indifference.

Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

But as much as he wanted to know the answers, it was against his nature to force someone to tell something she didn't want to. His father had raised him to respect another person's right to keep his own secrets.

Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.