Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times,… — D. H. Lawrence
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to… — Samuel R. Delany
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned… — Jose Saramago
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. — Chris Heimerdinger
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to… — Derrick Jensen
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to… — Carter G. Woodson
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you… — Euripides
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force. — Euripides
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from… — Euripides
Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… — Cesare Pavese
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of… — George Lucas
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate… — Wayne Dyer
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,… — Alexander Hamilton
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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