Quotes About Force

What is the heart of the story? What's the hook? What's the setting? What is the primary action that drives the story? What is the emotional core? What are the external conflicts (the world is coming to an end!) What are the internal conflicts (torn between two lovers) What is the driving emotional force? (revenge, love) Will they succeed? (introduce doubt)

We must see God, when we see God as agentic, as an uplifting force only, and abandon most if not all of God's other purported attributes. God is only where God is, not everywhere. God is only what God is, not everything. And God is only good, not bad. I see these as the true meaning of Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, "I am that which I am" (Exodus 3:14).

Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.

Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again

Something rises in me so hard I think it will lift me off the ground and ram me into the side of the house.

I was at first almost frightened when I saw such mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered to see that the subject stood it so well. [Letter to James Clerk Maxwell, 25 March 1857, commenting on Maxwell's paper titled "On Faraday's Lines of Force"]

One thing that is clear is that we do not always want to relive the experience of the Romans; although sometimes what they did is entirely to be admired and envied, in other respects they were detestable. Most of what they achieved was based upon the use of force. The culture that has given us their unequaled masterpieces was created and maintained, in the last resort, by violent means that modern societies could not, or should not, tolerate today…

Faith comes from having confidence in the universal force that guides us and having confidence in ourselves that we are more then capable.

Faith begins by acknowledging the faith of Jesus and dying with him by no longer relying on the law and the self for right relations with God. Faith continues by daily relying on Christ as the energizing force for all of life, and by allowing the faith of the Son of God, expressed in his self-giving, loving death, to reexpress itself in the life of the believer

Deliberate practice works when skill dominates, while a focus on process and probability is appropriate when luck is the greater force.

C??ng b?c là d?u hi?u ch? không ph?i ngu?n g?c c?a b?t công.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force.

Once a certain historical momentum is created I don't think it can be stopped.

If you can't fuck it... blow it up.

a mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained…. [It] is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet. Meaning, it's not a question of skill, but of a style that's truly alive: meaning, it's in the veins: meaning, it's of the most ancient culture of immediate creation. It is the spirit of the earth.

But the reality was that there was only the Force. It was above such petty concepts as positive and negative, black and white, good and evil. The only difference worthy of note was this: The Jedi saw the Force as an end in itself; the Sith knew that it was a means to an end. And that end was Power.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

Closing her right hand into a fist, she folded her thumb over her index finger. Then she drew her arm back. "When you absolutely, positively have to knock a hole through something..." The Warrior grunted as she drove her fist into the glass dome with tremendous force. "...you cannot beat a Jeet Kune Do punch.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

The Leviathan reduces violence by asserting a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, thereby replacing what criminologists call "self-help justice"—in which individuals settle their own scores and disputes, often violently (such as the Mafia)—with criminal justice, leading overall to a decrease in violence.

We are lucidly aware that achieving through mere physical force establishes the rules of a game from which there is no escape. When one grants oneself the moral justification to use force, one cannot logically deny it in one's enemies, for all moralities are relative. The dissimilarity between different human cultures alone suggests that one cannot establish universal goods and evils.

Donald Trump was a step up—and early in the 2016 race, Trump became the Breitbart totem. (Many of Trump's positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began to suggest to people that he, like Ailes had been at Fox, was the true force behind his chosen candidate.

Many of Trump's positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began to suggest to people that he, like Ailes had been at Fox, was the true force behind his chosen candidate.