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Quotes About Force

A change of more than 0.4 per cent in the constants governing the strength of the strong nuclear force or more than 4 per cent in the fine structure constant would destroy almost all carbon or almost all oxygen in every star.
~ John D. Barrow
Let us say, in a word, that the correlation between the laws of mathematics and of physics is the evidence of the rational character of nature. Nature may be reduced to motions; and motions can be understood only as force, activity. But the laws which connect motions are fundamentally mathematical laws,- laws of reason. Hence force, activity, can be understood only as rational, as spiritual. Nature is thus seen to mean Activity, and Activity is seen to mean Intelligence
~ John Dewey
On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.
~ John Dewey
with Paul, with dusty, tired, much-traveled Paul, came Rome's most dangerous opponent—not legions but ideas, not an alternative force but an alternative faith.
~ John Dominic Crossan
The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary—obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that
~ John Donne
Three poets, in three distant ages born,Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd;The next, in majesty; in both the last.The force of Nature could no further go.To make a third, she joined the former two.
~ John Dryden
Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.
~ Frederick Lenz
My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.
~ Juan Pablo Escobar
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
~ Oliver Lodge
The motive power is the cause of all life.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
~ Georgette Mosbacher
Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
~ Rob Bell
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
~ A.S.A. Harrison
The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.
~ Cesar Millan
Washington rightly called this "a new phenomenon in the political & moral world; and an astonishing victory gained by enlightened reason over brutal force.
~ Edward J. Larson
Religion, too, he warned, especially when "kindled into enthusiasm," is a "force like that of other passions" and "may become a motive to oppression.
~ Edward J. Larson
Of all the Arts, writing, perhaps, shows most clearly the formative force of the instruments used.
~ Edward Johnston
The answer is quite simple: the presidential nominee of the Republican Party will not only have to run against Barack Obama in 2012; he will also have to run against the full force and power of the liberal mainstream media and the cultural establishment. For all their carping about Obama's coldness, detachment, isolation, and grandiosity, and for all their disappointment over his failure to become a "transformative" president, mainstream journalists and their allies in the
~ Edward Klein
Now "public opinion" stood out as a force that must be managed, and not through clever guesswork but by experts trained to do that all-important job.
~ Edward L. Bernays
Natural selection, the driving force of biological evolution in both individual and group selection, is captured in a single phrase: mutation proposes, the environment disposes.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
~ Edward Young
Precisely, neither law nor action, nor force of one else can eliminate Self-determination of Kashmiris; indeed, it will be a reality of reality.
~ Ehsan Sehgal