Quotes About Force

Why give Russia or Syria any reason to doubt that Obama would use force?

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

The only thing that separates a living faith from a ritualistic orthodoxy is one word, one idea, one compelling force: Love.

A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before known on earth, a strange kind of nonculture or anticulture we call modern.

Violence is the divine force that everyone tries to use for his own purposes and that ends by using everyone for its own—the Dionysus of The Bacchae

W]hat is this law of the greatest number which modern governments invoke and in which they claim to find their sole justification? It is simply the law of matter and brute force, the same law by which a mass, carried down by its weight, crushes everything that lies in its track. It is precisely here that we find the point of junction of the democratic conception and materialism...

The notion of [emotional] force, among other things, opens to question the common assumption that the greatest human import always resides in the densest forest of symbols and that cultural depth always equals cultural elaboration. Do people always, in fact, describe most thickly what to them matters most?

Liberty does not mean being given state sanction to force your own ideas—religious or otherwise—on other people. It does not mean being given a free pass from laws you don't like.

and shoving

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction." Charles Haanel

thing—a force.

Every action always has an opposite and equal reaction.

we find that the law is the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the Universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception." Charles Haanel

La combinación del pensamiento y el amor es lo que crea la irresistible fuerza de la ley de la atracción.»

The narrative and theological force of this story is analogous to that of the saying, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you" (Matt. 21:31); just as that saying does not necessarily commend extortionate tax-farming and prostitution as continuing practices, so these stories about centurions cannot be read as endorsements of military careers for Christians.

God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, "the faithful witness [martys]" (1:5).

Tis not the work of force but skill To find the way into man's will. Tis love alone can hearts unlock. Who knows the WORD, he needs not knock.

Michael was silent. "Too often," I said, "technology evokes a sense of wonder instead of understanding, and I think this makes it a corrosive force which sometimes requires opposition.

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

I think I know the secret of Hell House, Ben." Fischer didn't speak for almost half a minute. "Do you?" he asked then. "It's Belasco." "How?" "He safeguards the haunting of his house by reinforcing it," she said. "By acting as a hidden aide for every other haunting force.

In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.