Force Quotes

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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it… — Isaac Newton
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to… — Ludwig von Mises
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name… — Sathya Sai Baba
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now -… — Ray Charles
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big… — Robert Henri
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being… — Warren Christopher
Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective… — Walter Koenig
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. — Isaac Stern
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you… — Friedrich Engels
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. — Julia Cameron
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate. — Julia Cameron
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis… — Howard Zinn

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