Quotes About Force

I'm not someone who quite understands the science of the Force. To me Star Wars was never about science fiction -- it was a spiritual story.

When gravity calls, something falls.

It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.

The challenge we face is not (only) to reduce or stabilize concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, but to live in productive relationship with the dynamic systems that govern a changing planet. This is a new challenge because humanity is young and now constitutes an important planetary force in a way that is unprecedented. Anthropogenic climate change is the harbinger of a new world in which humans have become a dominant force on Earth's natural systems.

The levelling glories of field artillery,' he said, 'beneath which all things are rendered equal.

The East India Company created the Dutch empire in Indonesia by means of brute force combined with economic pressure.

Everything potent, from human love to atomic energy, is dangerous;

You look like you could be the love child of a grizzly bear and a navy destroyer.

He strode right up to the door of her cabin, seized the latch, and yanked. Locked. "Open the door, Maeve." "Rot in hell, you wretch!" "Open the damned door, Maeve." "I said, go to—" He raised his foot, drew back, and with all his strength, kicked the latch. Once, twice—and then the door crashed open under the force of his blows and he was in the cabin and striding angrily across the tiny space.

A dalliance? Is that what you think of me? A dalliance? " "Now, Maeve, darling—" "Don't you now Maeve darling me!" she cried and swung her open palm against his jaw with all the force in her body. He stood there and allowed her to slap him. He saw the fire blazing now in her eyes, hot angry fire that burned him to the core.

Schoomaker's reorganization went beyond the line-and-block charts. He demanded, and got, authority to re-equip the force wholesale. In SOF, the leadership has long enjoyed independent procurement authority not tied to the slow, cumbersome acquisition laws that often make it hard to get a new tank or even a new pistol in less than a decade. Schoomaker asked for similar authority for the conventional forces. He got most of what he asked for.

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

Levity is that unseen force that lifts you skyward, whereas gravity is the opposing force that pulls you earthward. Unchecked levity leaves you flighty, ungrounded, and unreal. Unchecked gravity leaves you collapsed in a heap of misery," she writes. "Yet when properly combined, these two opposing forces leave you buoyant."15

The buttons I usually push don't need my force, only my intention. Buttons are supposed to be servants, waiting to deliver your commands to the machine. Instead, this loud, dumb piece of steel I'm driving demands that I pay strict attention to every turn of the road, keep my hands and feet ready at all times. The car takes no responsibility for the job of driving. It leaves me in total control. I hate it. I don't want control. I just want to get there

Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books can warp space-time and tear the fabric of reality.

Viv Richards, a man who put the ire into fire, the ow into power and the fucking fury into fucking fury.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the Kind of England cannot enter, all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

'Flying Jatt' is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.