Quotes About Force

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force.

Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful.

Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Patience will achieve more than force.

In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea

Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. 25

And in the whale he created the symbol par excellence of malevolent power at work in an indifferent universe

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

for iron of itself draws a man thereto.

the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.

Impressive displays of rhetoric and linguistic force are a good way to seem important and invite a particular kind of admiration, but they tend to silence dissent and discourage deeper modes of engagement.

the great force was gone, the strength lost forever, now, that filled his rippling limbs in the old days.

their aggression reaches330 the iron sky.

To manufacture unity, the imperialists of history followed another animal pattern, that of the dominance hierarchy—the strangely unjust principle which sometimes uses brutality to bring individuals or collections of groups together in a stable and ultimately peaceful form. It's ironic that one of our strongest forces of cohesion should be something so unpleasant as our will to lord it over others and that this ace-attractor should be egged on by repulsers—

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?

The police force was dominantly Irish, and the official investigation of the riot indicated the police helped the rioters: "… it appears that charges of unprovoked and most brutal clubbing have been made against policemen, with the result that they were reprimanded or fined a day's pay and were yet retained upon the force.

To make the country ours, before and after the American Revolution, we had to displace or annihilate the indigenous people who had lived here for thousands of years. We had expanded by using deception and force, by military forays into Florida to persuade Spain to "sell" that to us (no money changed hands), by invading Mexico and taking almost half its land.