Quotes About Force

Once I lose control, there's no stopping me.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

For ten thousand years we have studied the Force and developed our society around and within it. Wars and conflicts have come and gone. We strive to keep the dark and the light, Bogan and Ashla, forever in balance. But now Ã¢â'¬Â¦ now there is something that might destroy us all.

Alchemy should have no part in a Je'daii's experience. It is a dark force, arcane and dangerous. It has the power to upset balance. There are other ways.

Unlike him, she can feel the draw of the Chasm and its incredible, primeval power. The Force is in turmoil within her. She feels sick.

the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void. —Unknown Je'daii, 2,545 TYA (Tho Yor Arrival)

If the Force is the dream, you are the dreamer, and sometimes you have to wake up. Sometimes you are all you have.

The resort to force is a two-edged weapon which has a persistent habit of recoiling on the user and which in the last analysis seldom achieves anything that could not be obtained by reason and peaceful means.

the State that emerged from the civil war frustrated Ireland's imagination. Collins himself might have been similarly frustrated, despite his mighty powers. The sheer strength of the forces massed against him in the North make it very hard to see how his efforts to achieve unity by force could have succeeded.

Boland took the unexpected position that the use of force in pursuit of a principle lowered its value. Collins agreed with Beaslai who quoted Shaw's Armourer: 'Nothing is ever done in this world unless men are prepared to kill one another, if it is not done.

In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain.

it would be moral to force someone to do something which they would volunteer for if they were a moral person in possession of all of the facts.

Indiana, where truth was no defense, and the First Amendment had no force of law.

David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity. It's a remarkable argument for the power of knowledge—as not just a human capability but as a force that shapes the universe.

Whoever said violence never solved anything doesn't know what he's talking about. Violence is the only language some people understand. Not that I'm fluent, but I know enough to get by.

What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against dissenters. As

Most governments, most of the time, seek to monopolize violence. If only the government can legitimately use force, and this use is constrained by law, then the forms of politics that we take for granted become possible.

What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against dissenters.

Many apparently paranormal phenomena and amazing deeds attributed to supernatural powers can be partly explained - as Alexandra David-Neel herself pointed out - as the effects of mental training. Through concentration an extraordinary force can be developed which produces a form of energy.

What a miraculous fountain love was, Andrei thought, ever flowing, ever refreshing, with a force too exhausting to even contemplate.

Explanations of thoughts as the product of some deeper force such as the soul, he felt, were really the realm of metaphysics.