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Quotes About Force

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
~ Dylan Thomas
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
~ Walt Whitman
A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
~ Unknown
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
~ Carl Zwanzig
Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~ Havelock Ellis
There is always a destiny A divine force created you and destined you to live. Your destiny is to exist and to live the kind of nature that has given to you. Your life is a destiny, but your destiny is not about your life. Your life is what you make. it is not a fate but the choices you take.
~ Unknown
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love
~ Nelson Rockefeller
Love itself is a large force, so don't try to force it into your life otherwise it pushes you back and you get hurt.
~ Unknown
Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Love is the force that allows chaos and peace to coexist in harmony.
~ Unknown
Crushing people is the truth's hobby.
~ Mark Waid
You cannot force the mind. And if you try to, you won't like what comes of it.
~ Mark Williams
By the middle forties, the Grand Ole Opry was the dominant force in country music in the nation.
~ Unknown
If you want to use force to protect your family, guard yourself from attack, fight against wrongdoing, prevent crime, and engage in a so-called "good war," you have been co-opted by the siren song of violence.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
~ Martha Graham
The problem with gunships is they want to shoot at stuff.
~ Martha Wells
I bonked his head against the edge of the hatch and yanked the damaged weapon away.
~ Martha Wells
I said, "I've reported to my contracted supervisor." (I know, I know, I could have said no, I didn't kill anybody. I could have said that even SecUnits under company protocol use minimum force necessary
~ Martha Wells
Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.
~ Unknown
You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness.
~ Martin Buber
Thus the poet is the messenger of God and of the earth and is at home in the two spheres. The force of fire is his force; it burns in contradiction, and it shines in unity. Like Enoch, of whom a legend tells that he was transformed from flesh to fire; his bones are glowing coals, but his eyelashes are the splendor of the firmament.
~ Martin Buber
I will keep an eye on Diatribe, with her big talk and heroic gestures, to see with what force she will bring down my Achilles, when hitherto she has never managed to hit a common soldier, not even a Thersites, but she has shot her miserable self to pieces with her own weapons.
~ Martin Luther
faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by constraint. Force may avail either to strengthen alike faith and heresy, or to break down integrity and turn a heretic into a hypocrite who confesses with his lips what he does not believe in his heart. Better to let men err than to drive them to lie".
~ Martin Luther