Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She… — Nicole Krauss
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out… — William Morris
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. — Abraham Lincoln
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
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

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