Quotes About Force

We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter—all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

IT IS NO ACCIDENT that "wheels of industry" is such a cliché description of a manufacturing economy, since the application of force in the form of rotational motion is by far the most important component of useful work. In late eighteenth-century Britain, the wheels that mattered most were the ones turning the mills that ground the nation's grain, and the ones that spun the nation's cloth. Most of them used water; some used wind. None used steam.

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

Force Protection of the kind usually employed by American forces is highly disadvantageous in Fourth Generation war, because it seeks security by isolating the troops from the surrounding population.

Mincing poetry:'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

The force of his own merit makes his way.

The strengthOf twenty men.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

He was asking for it, and he basically made me do it, and I just weren't powerful enough to hold back the surge that took me over. Blaming me is like blaming the sky for raining.

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.

A slumber did my spirit seal;I had no human fears:She seemed a thing that could not feelThe touch of earthly years.No motion has she now, no force;She neither hears nor sees;Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,With rocks, and stones, and trees.

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.

According to this doctrine, man's destiny—both mortal and immortal—depended, not upon the existence of a soul before birth or after death nor upon the whim of a spiritual force, but upon his own good words and good deeds.

the essence of kungfu training is improving skills and enhancing force (not merely learning elaborate techniques) — the process of which necessitates practising simple actions over and over again, many, many, many times.

Yet the force developed, if you know how to make use of cosmic energy, is greater

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air

No se mucho de besos, pero yo le aseguro que los suyos no eran menos feroces que un enjambre de balas despedazando el aire

To enjoy objects of our affection by force appears to be more like the act of a robber than that of a lover.