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Quotes About Force

Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but really, apart from the dragon, the cat is the only creature which can absorb the force. No one knows why a cat absorbs it and what it does with it...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Nothing. I've had a bit to drink and I'm philosophizing. I'm looking for general truths. And I've found one: lesser evils exist, but we can't choose them. Only True Evil can force us to such a choice. Whether we like it or not.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Will you drink a glass of wine with me?' 'The gnat's piss they serve here?' smiled Geralt pleasantly. 'With the greatest revulsion. Well, but if you like it . . . then I'll force myself.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The world is huge," repeated the elf. "That's true, human. But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as you treat anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as if the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in." Geralt didn't reply.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as it the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
El mundo es grande —repitió el elfo—. Eso es cierto, humano. Pero vosotros cambiasteis el mundo. Al principio lo cambiasteis a la fuerza, obrasteis con él como con todo lo que ha caído en vuestras manos. Ahora resulta que el mundo ha comenzado a adaptarse a vosotros. Se ha plegado ante vosotros. Os obedece.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You're going to learn how to discover [veins], to find them in the open and recognise such spots. They are marked by trees which have dried up, gnarled plants, places avoided by all animals. Except cats." "Cats?" "Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but really, apart from the dragon, the cat is the only creature which can absorb the force. No one knows why a cat absorbs it and what it does with it...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Evil has stopped being chaotic. It has stopped being a blind and impetuous force, against which a witcher, a mutant as murderous and chaotic as Evil itself, had to act. Today Evil acts according to rights – because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written…
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The boulder shook, vibrated, and with it the entire hill vibrated and shook.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But needs must when the devil drives.
~ Angela Carter
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.
~ Angela Carter
I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly
~ Angela Carter
He had become the sign of an idea of a hero; and she herself had been forced to impersonate the sign of a memory of a bride.
~ Angela Carter
Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.
~ Angus Wilson
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
~ Anita Roddick
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
~ Lloyd Cutler
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
~ Henry Reed
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
~ Henry Miller
I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever.
~ Roger Ver
When in doubt, use brute force.
~ Ken Thompson
Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.
~ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
~ Hermann Goering
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
~ Herodotus
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~ Ayn Rand