Force Quotes

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At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her… — Paulo Coelho
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because… — Leo Tolstoy
There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that… — Chuck Klosterman
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. — Og Mandino
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are… — Albert Camus
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's… — Thomas Hardy
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do… — Ayn Rand
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things… — Chuck Palahniuk
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so… — Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The… — Nicholas Sparks
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. — Henry David Thoreau
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a… — Don DeLillo

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