Quotes About Force

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

The government men dragged Mom out of the house. They held her by the elbows and ankles and shoulders and thighs, their harsh, meaty hands digging into her softness. She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way white men always know how to do.

a result, some kind of sub-mental union or bonding resulted in what could only be thought of as an unknown kind of telepathy that served to induce behavior of a group-mind force.

The baby kicked like a demon

The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.

the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a body impinge upon another, and by its force change the motion of the other, that body also (because of the equality of the mutual pressure) will undergo an equal change, in its own motion, towards the contrary part.

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

A model is by definition that in which nothing has to be changed, that which works perfectly; whereas reality, as we see clearly, does not work and constantly falls to pieces; so we must force it, more or less roughly, to assume the form of the model.

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

If I had to choose an auspicious sign for the approach of the new millennium, I would choose this: the sudden nimble leap of the poet/philosopher who lifts himself against the weight of the world, proving that its heaviness contains the secret of lightness, while what many believe to be the life force of the times—loud and aggressive, roaring and rumbling—belongs to the realm of death, like a graveyard of rusted automobiles.

Karta ksi??ki tylko wtedy jest co? warta, je?li mo?esz j? odwróci? i dojrze? za ni? ?ycie, które na ni? napiera gwa?tem i miesza wszystkie karty.

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.

forced, so that most of the coolness is felt at the tip of the tongue, and

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.