Quotes About Force

the overwhelming sheer aloneness that hangs in the air in rural Ireland is a potent force. It is at once the greatest positive and negative thing about the countryside. For with it comes not only the peacefulness of life here, the undeniable sense of the spiritual, but also the consequent darker aspects of hopelessness and madness.

According to Marshal Ney, a force of 25,000 trained men could embark from the dockside in just over ten minutes flat.

he was still General Bonaparte, the revolutionary soldier who had seized power by force of arms

This monster force would then turn about and return to Europe under Ganteaume's command,

He found it hard to understand that the sea was a law unto itself, beyond anyone's control.

at the expiration of eighteen minutes, the explosion seemed to raise her bodily about six feet;

I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that's all you will be. Live in a swamp and you'll grow webbed feet.

The creative impulse, to me, is a form of bafflement, and often feels dissonant and unsettling. It chips away at your own cherished truths about things, pushes against your own sense of what is acceptable. It's the guiding force that leads you to where it wants to go. It's not the other way around. You're not leading it.

If there is something you want to protect, attack it with measured vigour yourself, thus investing it with replenished force, and pre-empting its annihilation.

Now he understood why her hounds spoke of her as they did: not human, more like a wall, a tide, the waxing of the moon. A force of nature. Implacable, untouchable.

She understood why a king often threatened violence. It felt good, and it worked.

The democratic historian teaches that the democrat kills only because his victims force him to do so.

Common good, general will, historical necessity, are the names with which the flatterer christens the whims of force.

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.

You have no love for the good, then force yourself to do good, without any love for it. That will be counted an even greater merit for you than for one who does good for the love of it. Simply force yourself a few times then the love will come to you as well. Believe me, everything can be done.

Therefore, if it really be that you have no genuine love for doing good, do good by forcing yourself to do so.

As if the sheer force of her anguish had made her, inexplicably, the most important person on earth

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. It repels. It destroys.

My intent is to help retire the word "civilian" in drawing a distinction between police and community members. Why? Because, if those served by police are civilians, that makes cops, ipso facto, a military force.)

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)

Centripetal force is the synthetic striving of the spirit - centrifugal force the analytical striving of the spirit. Striving toward unity - striving towards diversity. Through the mutual determination of each by the other - that higher synthesis of unity and diversity itself will be produced - whereby one is in all and all in one.

Academia ar trebui s? fie un institut eminamente filozofic - Doar o unic? facultate - întreg a?ez?mântul organizat în vederea stimul?rii ?i exers?rii adecvate a for?ei de gândire.