Quotes About Force

He who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

Anything forced is not beautiful

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means.

but the banging was fascist—a sound conveying force and authority—and I knew I would have to answer.

this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.

In this light, I believe that one of the subtle forces producing a post-evangelicalism today is discontent with Jesus-according-to-US-white-evangelicalism.

Force can bring satisfaction, but only power brings joy. Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

If you don't have true, deep, enduring conviction about the importance of the change you're pursuing, you will be buffeted, worn down, ground down, and diverted at those critical points where leadership is the only force that keeps the change moving. The biggest mistakes that I see come during those points. At root, the mistakes arise from the dissipation of conviction—leadership and management conviction.

Lucy had started thinking about irony as a force in nature, invisible but inescapable, quietly shaping the arcs of human lives. It was like Occam's razor meets Murphy's Law: faced with two equally likely outcomes, the universe was biased toward the most ironic one.

The Queen peered down at Jack and mused, "Aren't you a little young to be in my Royal Air Force?

the jet stream undulating over us like an angry snake god.

Burr's huge insight was that fields weren't just produced by living organisms, but that fields created matter, providing lines of force around which matter could arrange itself into atoms, molecules, and cells.

Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go. If there was a single chance at happiness with him, I was determined to seize it.

On his orders. Her letter revealed that he had sent very specific instructions as to how the deed was to be done. She complied. She was his willing accomplice in every way, and I can only imagine the hold he must have had over her to force her to do such terrible things.

Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature - an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild, relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master.

Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.

The energy of life is force of faith.