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Quotes About Force

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
~ Jewish proverb
the start of a new era, in which the course of history might be made predictable and a government established that would be ruled not by accident and force but by reason and choice. The origins of that idea, and its fate, are the story of American history.
~ Jill Lepore
In 1787, then, when Alexander Hamilton asked "whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force," that was the kind of question a scientist asks before beginning an experiment.
~ Jill Lepore
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
~ Jim DeMint
Bring the thunder. Some situations require extra inspiration and motivation to influence others; during those moments, act with fierce bravado.
~ Jim Knight
Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.
~ Jim Parsons
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
~ Jimmy Carter
Ten inches of raw uncut power.
~ Jimmy Trips
i mean, jillian gushed. you have this force connecting you. it's under the surface, but it runs deep.
~ Joan Bauer
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
~ Joan D. Vinge
EVEN AS THEY resumed eating, memories and sexual awareness sparked between them, growing so palpable, it was like a physical force as strong and wild as the sea crashing against the cliff outside the windows.
~ JoAnn Ross
In this sense, the crisis of the Union was a crisis of communication. Northerners were waging war against the South with dangerous words; Southerners were trying to stifle those words with force, and the cross-fire was cutting off conversation, particularly in Congress, an institution grounded on open debate and free speech.
~ Joanne B. Freeman
You're less of a charmer, and more of a 'fury from the depths of hell' type of person.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
He was her heart. He had changed all the molecules inside her. Sylvie had known love would come for her with the force of a tsunami. She'd dreamed of this
~ Ann Napolitano
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
~ Anna C. Brackett
Nor is woman to blame if the question of her education occupies so much attention. The demands made are not hers--the continual agitation is not primarily of her creating. It is simply the tendency of the age, of which it is only the index. It would be as much out of place to blame the weights of a clock for the moving of the hands, while, acted upon by an unseen, but constant force, they descend slowly but steadily towards the earth.
~ Anna C. Brackett
She's the stuff that lava is made of, not rain.
~ Anna Camilleri
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength.
~ Anne Carson
I only feel clean he says suddenly when I wake up with you. The seduction of force is from below.
~ Anne Carson
that the Orthodox Church must be the country's unifying force,
~ Anne Garrels