Force Quotes

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Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend. — Timothy Keller
When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,… — Seneca the Younger
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,… — S. J. Perelman
I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we… — Madeleine Albright
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E L Doctorow
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect… — Dick Gregory
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of… — Richard Le Gallienne
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them. — Ralph Abernathy
Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of… — Norman Cousins
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. — Blaise Pascal
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. — Jacques Barzun
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can… — Felix Frankfurter

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