Force Quotes
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When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
Tom Hayden
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Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
Marianne Williamson
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We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
Lao Tzu
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I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.
Michel Martelly
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
George Bernard Shaw
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Jose Rizal
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster
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There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.
Celia Rees
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.
Lewis Carroll
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
Marcel Proust