Quotes About Force

People want to think of a food tradition as something that would continue unchanging and timeless, unless some outside force knocked things askew.

want to propose that we are both sent and drawn by the same Force, which is precisely what Christians mean when they say the Cosmic Christ is both alpha and omega. We are both driven and called forward by a kind of deep homesickness, it seems. There is an inherent and desirous dissatisfaction that both sends and draws us forward, and it comes from our original and radical union with God. What appears to be past and future is in fact the same home, the same call, and the same God

An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.

There was a cosmic breakdown between heaven and humanity on the table. As if some malevolent force had clawed from a dark world into this one.

The tree struck him with such force it would've flattened me into a Percy pizza with extra olives.

No; I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

she gave her a good clout to the ear.

I immediately understood that all our training—the rehearsal of thoughts and actions, the merging of individual identities into a coordinated and interdependent force—was done in anticipation of this very moment, to stanch the fundamental impulse to flee from such terror. We smelled that death—perhaps the death of civilization—and we kept moving toward it, thereby becoming something more and less than human.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower," wrote Dylan Thomas

Mania is a strange and driving force, a destroyer, a fire in the blood.

No hago más que pensar en ese río de no sé qué parte, con unas aguas muy rápidas. Y en esas dos personas que están en medio de ellas, tratando de agarrarse mutuamente, aferrándose con todas sus fuerzas el uno al otro, hasta que al final ya no pueden aguantar más. La corriente es demasiado fuerte. Tienen que soltarse, y se separan, y se los lleva el agua.

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.

It's increasing the pressure on the Big Mules

But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce.

su desaprobación era como las repentinas ráfagas de viento del norte del enero moscovita.

For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Size is no guarantee of power.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.