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Quotes About Force

caput acris equi;
~ Virgil
mighty in heaven and hell
~ Virgil
At the very center of all human life is energy, psychic energy. It is the force of that energy that drives us, that surges continually up in us, that must repeatedly spend and renew itself in us, that must perpetually be reaching for something beyond itself in order to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.
~ Vivian Gornick
Any future is unknown – but sometimes it acquires a particular fogginess, as if some other force had come to the aid of destiny's natural reticence and distributed this resilient fog, from which thought rebounds.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let me repeat with quite force: I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow moving tall, with dark soft hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanour.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
They studied Zoorlandian customs and laws. The region was rocky and windy, and the wind was recognized as a positive force since by championing equality in not tolerating towers and tall trees, it only subserved the public aspirations of atmospheric strata that kept diligent watch over the uniformity of the temperature.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
two eyes and a foot of engorged brawn—to mention only mentionable matters
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Si me llevan a la muerte, recuerden, cuando lo hagan, que sólo un arrebato de locura podría darme la fuerza bruta para comportarme como una bestia.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
To you Who are the Foam on the sea And not the sea-- What of the jagged rocks, And the waves themselves, And the force of the mounting waters? You are But foam on the sea, You rich ones-- Not the sea.
~ Langston Hughes
Yitzhak Sadeh was the spiritual father of the Haganah and the founder of its elite striking force, the Palmach.
~ Larry Collins
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Charlie Tilghman, who flies a restored B-24 for the Commemorative Air Force, taught me about flying the Liberator.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
la sangre, como la leche hervida, siempre está esperando una oportunidad para derramarse y cuando empieza ya no quiere detenerse.
~ Laura Restrepo
Then perhaps we should force you to help Petra."Alexander returned with barely disguised menace."She needs your blood.Now." "That's unfortunate for her."Syn jerked his chin in the direction of the Great Room."As you can see,I am otherwise engaged." "He's lost,"Luca uttered."Fucking lost.
~ Laura Wright
creating earthquakes, moving mountains.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The gray water churned angrily where competing tides vied with one another
~ Laurence Bergreen
the storm gathered force, and the winds pushed the helpless ship toward the rocky coast
~ Laurence Bergreen
Remember: do not think of the opposite...think of the contradiction inherent in the force that you want to draw into your life.
~ Laurence Galian
To cause change to happen a person needs a greater or bigger fore than their own conscious mind to cause that pendulum to start swinging in the other direction. The person needs to embrace a bigger principle. The principle is a Force existing all around you and within you, at your beck and call whenever you're read to use it. It is THE ALL.
~ Laurence Galian
To cause change to happen a person needs a greater or bigger force than their own conscious mind to cause that pendulum to start swinging in the other direction. The person needs to embrace a bigger principle. The principle is a Force existing all around you and within you, at your beck and call whenever you're read to use it. It is THE ALL.
~ Laurence Galian
Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.
~ Laurence Galian
Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with lethal force.
~ Laurence Galian
The more you know the force that is the opposite of the force you are invoking, the more you can successfully reach the Third Point of Transcendence. When dealing with personal matters, the opposite force is a force that is living inside you.
~ Laurence Galian
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~ Laurence J. Peter