Force Quotes

• I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Force
  • Department of Justice
  • Civil Rights Movement

• I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • Air
  • Intelligence
  • Officer

• The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Enemy
  • Liberty
  • Destroy

• Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Force
  • Rock And Roll
  • Hobby

• A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Positive
  • Body
  • Attitude

• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Matter
  • Definition
  • Inertia

• 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
  • Force
  • Convey
  • Magnetic

• 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
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Powerful

• I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Force

• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  

  William Penn
  • May
  • Hypocrite
  • Converting

• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Passion
  • Consider
  • Appearance

• It will dispel the notion that the U.S. is a permanent occupying force, a theme used by the insurgents to justify their continued attacks.

  

  Frank Pallone
  • U.S.
  • Notion
  • Dispel

• A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Business
  • Artists
  • Attracted

• Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Force
  • Publicity
  • Public Life

• A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Poets
  • Scientists

• The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Truth
  • Force
  • Totalitarian State

• 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.
  • Possibility
  • Weapons
  • Preventing

• Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Mystical

• In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Authority
  • Philosopher
  • Actually

• Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Force
  • Yielding
  • Violated

• Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Soul
  • Sin
  • Conscience

• It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Conflict
  • Endure
  • Opposing

• You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Control
  • Force
  • Consumption

• Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Change
  • Force
  • Counsel

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