Quotes About Force

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

That such a small force was entrusted with defending the critical Losheim Gap demonstrated the complacency with which American commanders viewed the

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Her recovery was sometimes referred to as "a miracle," more miraculous than mine, but I don't believe in miracles, just the force of compassion, which under certain circumstances can bring the dead to life.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

The seamen said it blew great guns.

Tan grande es la fuerza de la costumbre, y tan deseable que las costumbres desde el principio sean buenas.

Todas las fuerzas comprimidas con exceso desgarran y destrozan.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any thing is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Little is to be expected of that day... to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly-acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells...

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

When gravity calls, something falls.

The epigram is a scorpion; as the sting of the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in its conclusion.

In June 1936, George White Rogers joined the Bayonne police force. He was assigned as assistant to Vincent Doyle in the radio department.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.