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Quotes About Force

She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal
~ Émile Zola
Je l'ai dit ailleurs, et je le répète ici : quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.
~ Émile Zola
The sea with its perpetual oscillation, that obstinate swell sweeping up to the cliffs twice a day, exasperated him: it was senseless force, indifferent to his grief, wearing down the same rocks for centuries while never mourning the death of a single human being. it was too vast, too cold; and he would hurry home and shut himself indoors, to feel less insignificant, less crushed between the dual infinities of sea and sky.
~ Émile Zola
Gerçek topra??n alt?na kapat?ld??? zaman, orada öyle bir toplan?r öyle bir patlama gücü kazan?r ki, patlad??? gün her ÅŸeyi kendisiyle birlikte havaya uçurur.
~ Émile Zola
Quanto mais se contorcem os vermes, mais vontade eu sinto de esmagá-los! É uma compulsão moral; e esmago-os cada vez com mais força, à medida que a dor aumenta.
~ Emily Bronte
I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat! And it is like bending back a stiff spring ... it is by compulsion, ..
~ Emily Bronte
To be alive??is Power.
~ Emily Dickinson
Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instance losing its integrity; it has not the vitality and force of a single living man. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
~ Emma Goldman
suddenly, was the roaring sea
~ Enid Blyton
Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Upon impact, each bar pulverized the contact area plus the surrounding fifteen centimeters, effectively blowing the door off its damn hinges. As the captain would say.
~ Eoin Colfer
storm troopers
~ Eoin Colfer
And can you be forced by anyone to desire something against your will? 'No.
~ Epictetus
guilt force justification!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Someone once called fate "the only cosmic force with a tragic sense of humor,
~ Amy Lane
The elephant in the living room, eating what looked like a mixing bowl full of cold cereal with the force and verve of a backhoe at a landfill. "God. Don't you go somewhere in the day?
~ Amy Lane
Galen's smile was unexpectedly pretty. "You, sir, are a force to be reckoned with. I'm proud to have helped in your defense." He gave an almost courtly bow then, and Bobby remembered why Galen hadn't been there for the arraignment.
~ Amy Lane
The fist of God grabbed their helicopter, crumpled it into tinfoil, and threw it over his shoulder.
~ Amy Lane
Cheever bit his lip. God, if nothing else, he was getting an education as to what made Mackey James Sanders such an undeniable force in the universe.
~ Amy Lane
A motor-car cuts a swathe through the bright air, sharp-beaked, irresistible, shouting to the wind to make way.
~ Amy Lowell
Although people can force a trap to close by running a finger along it, carnivorous plant enthusiasts consider this rude.
~ Amy Stewart
Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone
~ Andre Breton
Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we vow to change, even when we sorrow and atone for our mistakes, the momentum of our past keeps carrying us down the wrong road. Momentum rules the world.
~ Andre Agassi
A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.
~ Andre Agassi
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
~ Andrea Dworkin