Quotes on Force

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.