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Quotes About Force

IT WAS THE TYPE OF DAY THAT COULD WILT A METAL GATEPOST.
~ Unknown
It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things. ?? ?? ????? ???????? ????????
~ Heraclitus
As the Greek said, 'Give me a long enough lever... and I can move the earth'!
~ Unknown
I've tried to change, tried to make friends by being cheerful all the time. Seems to have failed. Can't force it, I guess. [...] The truth was, he was tired of maintaining a phony character and trying to adapt himself to other people day after day.
~ Unknown
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.
~ Hilary Mantel
Mirabeau: "If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution." Audible only to his neighbor, he adds, "If they come, we bugger off, quick.
~ Hilary Mantel
My mother did not need much food - she ran on wrath (pp94)
~ Hilary Mantel
Oread" Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.
~ Hilda Doolittle
There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
~ Unknown
The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.
~ Hippocrates
On the west side of the island was a village called Tomibo, where a force of about fifty American soldiers landed on February 28.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Encountering our dialect during those years was always disconcerting, provoking in me, and with equal force, both fear and longing.
~ Hisham Matar
Revolutions have their momentum, and once you join the current it is very difficult to escape the rapids. Revolutions are not solid gates through which nations pass but a force comparable to a storm that sweeps all before it. One of
~ Hisham Matar
nu adev?rul, ci iluziile ?i fanteziile au fost for?a motrice a tuturor marilor realiz?ri ale omenirii ?i s?mân?a a tot ce numim fericire omeneasc?.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.
~ Holly Black
It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer.
~ Holly Black
I hate you,¨ I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. ¨Say it again,¨ he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head. His voice is low. The words are for me alone. I pull out of his grip, but not before I see his expression. He looks as he did when he was forced to answer my questions, when he admitted his desire for me. He looks as though he´s confessing. page 104-105
~ Holly Black
Lo que pasa es que a veces forzamos demasiado nuestros juguetes y se acaban rompiendo.
~ Holly Black
Poder. El poder es la capacidad para conseguir lo que quieres. Es la capacidad para convertirse en el que toma las decisiones. ¿Y como se consigue ese poder? El poder se consigue por la fuerza.
~ Holly Black
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
~ Honore de Balzac
If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.
~ Unknown
I put it down like its too heavy.
~ Lil Wayne
I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.
~ Lily King
Beyond anything we know to name, there moves a force arising from the pure juxtaposition of things, a force that draws us into being, that allows us to dwell fully in our lives. All pure juxtaposition is a gathering.
~ Unknown