Quotes About Force

Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.

By homely gift and hindered Words The human heart is told Of Nothing— "Nothing" is the force That renovates the World— Emily Dickinson (#1563)

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

were unaware that the room was crowded with ghosts who were about to propel us into the present and force us to face the future.

Ryder Windham

What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will . What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will . Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.

Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit.

Cuando una muchacha no despierta en nosotros desde la primera mirada una impresión tan viva que cree una imagen ideal de sí misma, generalmente no es digna de que nos tomemos el trabajo de buscarla en la realidad. Pero si despierta en nosotros esa imagen, pese a nuestra experiencia, nos sentimos dominados y vencidos por una desconocida fuerza.

Mounted infantry can't force each other to fight, because the other side can just trot off. But we can make him fight, because we don't have to stop and get off our horses to shoot.

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right in life,' he tells his duck of a wife, 'unless it's forced out.

WHICH way should the balance swing? Assuming that we want to maintain a coherent ethical position on these matters, this appears to be a circumstance of forced choice: if we are willing to drop bombs, or even risk that pistol rounds might go astray, we should be willing to torture a certain class of criminal suspects and military prisoners; if we are unwilling to torture, we should be unwilling to wage modern war.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.