Force Quotes
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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
Rita Mae Brown
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William Shenstone
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
William Whewell
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At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.
Kari Matchett
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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength.
Lao Tzu
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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
August Strindberg
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It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
William H. Seward
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
John Locke Nazareth
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
William James
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No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.
Napoleon Hill
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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.
Michael Faraday
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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Herbert Spencer
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Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
Ivan Turgenev
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Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
Napoleon Hill
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As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.
Sergey Brin
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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
Corrie Ten Boom