Concepts become forces when they resist one another

“We cannot resist everything; we can only choose the forces to which we will submit.”

— Pauline Ashwell

The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way.…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

— Basil King

The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

— Barack Obama

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly…

— Abdul Kalam

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into…

— Dean Spade

“It was more than any mortal man could resist, so he let go.”

— Kit Rocha

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

— Robin Sharma

“People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.”

— Toba Beta

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

— Dan Millman

“Life is a flow which we can either resist or go with it gracefully.”

— Tonmoy Acharjee

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

— Giorgio Napolitano

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…

— Rumaan Alam