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Quotes About Force

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
~ Saul Bellow
You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.
~ Saul Bellow
A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.
~ Saul Bellow
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
~ Saul Bellow
My next idea was how nothing was more dreadful than to be forced by another to feel his persuasion as to how horrible it is to exist, how deathly to hope, and taste the same despair. How of all the impositions this was the worst imposition. Not just to be as they make you but to feel as they dictate. If you didn't have the strongest alliance you surely would despair at last and your mouth would drink blood.
~ Saul Bellow
First these people murdered you, then they forced you to brood over their crimes.
~ Saul Bellow
e così, chi sei infine? Io sono una parte di quella forza che eternamente vuole il male e eternamente compie il bene.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
pues si la ley tiene fuerza, más fuerza tiene la escasez.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
~ Johannes Stark
Knowledge of the earth's magnetic fields of force may have been universal in ancient times and considered so important to the human condition that men spent years of their lives in hard labor charting those fields and erecting huge monuments along them.
~ John A. Keel
Communism is a disease of the intellect. It promises universal brotherhood, peace and prosperity to lure humanitarians and idealists into participating in a conspiracy which gains power through deceit and deception and stays in power with brute force.
~ John A. Stormer
Unjust force can never give any just dominion.
~ John Arbuthnot
And time shall force a gift on each.
~ John Ashbery
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
~ John Boyd Orr
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice
~ John Brockman
in case you're interested. (It was the Soviet attack on Japan that forced Hirohito to surrender to save his war-criminal's
~ John Brockman
The income-tax law in toto has virtually no defenders, even though most fair-minded students of the subject agree that its effect over the half century that it has been in force has been to bring about a huge and healthy redistribution of wealth.
~ John Brooks
all this is quite a ways from auto makers being able to rig markets or force consumers to take what they want them to take . And the reason ; simply ; is that there is no accounting for tastes .... when it comes to dictating , the consumer is the dictator without peer
~ John Brooks
To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.
~ John Cheever
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
~ John Cleese
Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
~ John Connolly
Particles like protons or electrons occupy microscopic niches into which only one particle is allowed to sit. Any attempt to compress matter so that more than one particle would be squeezed into each niche is met by a resisting force. The balance between this force and the inward push of gravity results in the large, stable, cold bodies we see in the solar system.
~ John D. Barrow
For even if we expunged all the matter in the Universe the lambda force could still exist, causing the universe to expand or contract. It was always there, acting on everything but unaffected by anything. It began to look like an omnipresent form of energy that remained when everything that could be removed from a universe had been removed, and that sounds very much like somebody's definition of a vacuum.
~ John D. Barrow
It is the cosmological vacuum energy that contributes a repulsive lambda force to the gravitational force of Newton.
~ John D. Barrow