Quotes About Force

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

The role of emotional awareness is a second major theme running through the book. For the Karmapa, emotions serve as a force that is essential for translating intellectual understanding into positive action.

Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.

At the bridge the wind hits both of them like a kind of lady boxer.

This is how she understands it: life on this planet gets developed by some powerful force contained in every atom of organic matter. It's a force there is no physical evidence of, for the time being- you can't catch it on even the most precise microscopic images, nor in photographs of the atomic spectrum.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

It is a peculiar characteristic of monotheistic religions that they desire to FORCE their ONE GOOD IDEA onto others

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Do you imagine that a corrupt age cannot revere, that an artificial age cannot be stirred by truth, that an abject age cannot rise to comprehension under the compelling force of genius ?—you are wrong to doubt. Was it not the vilest of the Pagan ages that gave credence, and foothold, and tenure, to the faiths and the philosophies of Paul 1

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

Once you get on the joy and gratitude frequency, you come to see that the universe is not only a co-creative force, but it's your strongest ally.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.

De pronto lo antiguo se precipita. Lo antiguo cae de las nubes. Es el rayo mismo. El trueno es la voz de este animal enorme y extremadamente negro que se llama tormenta. Los relámpagos saltan desde lo alto del cielo con el deseo de venir a tocar la tierra.

Our whole raison d'être was deterrent force. When you don't deter them any longer, you lose.

The problem was that she didn't need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.

Dominance among wolves is a combination of force of personality, strength of will, physical ability and a component of other

She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.