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Quotes About Force

The vividness and force with which we trace the motion of history depends on the degree to which we look beyond persons and fix our gaze on things.
~ Lord Acton
There is a grain of truth in the notion that the force that creates, and sustains in a crisis, is not quite the same that is wanted in time of prose to continue and to preserve; or in other words, that creative power makes a great consumptive of party resources.
~ Lord Acton
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
~ Lord Acton
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
~ Lord Byron
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
~ Jim Butcher
About thirty feet from the door, Molly abruptly stopped in her tracks and said, Harry. I paused and looked back at her. Her eyes were wide. She said, I sense... I narrowed my eyes. Say it. You know you want to say it. It is not a disturbance in the Force, she said, her voice half-exasperated.
~ Jim Butcher
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga
~ Jim Butcher
Everyone," she said, "thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions." She glanced aside at me. "Love is a fire, my Knight. Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate. Reason, young wizard, is the opposite of hate, not love.
~ Jim Butcher
Battles are fought in muddy fields, in burning towns, in treacherous forests, in unforgiving mountains, and on the blood-spattered stones of contested bridges, Tavi realized. But battles are won within the minds and hearts of the soldiers fighting them. No force was defeated in battle until it believed that it was defeated. No force could be victorious unless it believed it could be victorious. The First Aleran believed. The Canim raiders weren't sure.
~ Jim Butcher
Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents.
~ Jim Butcher
Everyone thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions... Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate.
~ Jim Butcher
Great, grinding thunder raised its voice in a throaty roar, and the air turned to falling water.
~ Jim Butcher
Magic is essentially a force of creation, of life.
~ Jim Butcher
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
~ Jim Butcher
I've never met a place I couldn't blow up, burn down, or knock over with enough motivation
~ Jim Butcher
There are thousands of names for them, in every culture—mana, psychic energy, totem, juju, chi, bioethereal power, the Force, the soul. It's an incredibly complex system of interweaving energy that influences good old Mother Earth around us, but it all boils down to a fairly simple concept: Shit happens.
~ Jim Butcher
If you had, you'd realize what an incredible force you have working on your side." "The A-Team?" "Bureaucracy," Murphy said. "I would rather have the A-Team.
~ Jim Butcher
The thing about creatures as big as the Jotun is that they come without power steering.
~ Jim Butcher
And then the vast flaming axe crashed down into the ceiling above us and shattered the world.
~ Jim Butcher
she was something much more dangerous than that. She was disciplined, rigidly self-restrained, and she didn't give way to either the demonic parasite that made her a monster or anyone else who would try to force her into doing something she didn't want to do.
~ Jim Butcher
The new day and a gentle wind arrived together. For a time, the breeze practiced caution, plucking tentatively at this or that, as though teaching itself what to do with a strength as yet unfamiliar and untried. Then, as the dim gray light in the early morning sky flexed its own sinews and found force within them, the wind rushed at the tules and set them dancing.
~ Unknown
There she goes. How strange she is: my winter child; my changeling. Wild as an armful of birds, she flies everywhere in an instant. There is no keeping her inside, no making her sit quietly. She has never been like other girls, never like other children. Rosette is a force of nature, like the jackdaws that sit on the steeple and laugh, like a fall of unseasonal snow, like the blossom on the wind.
~ Joanne Harris
que, se a educação modifica a natureza, a natureza pode em suas exigências mais absolutas readquirir os seus direitos e manifestar a sua força.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
~ Jodi Picoult