Forces Quotes

• Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is
  • Instinct
  • Forces

• Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

  

  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  • Conscience
  • Account
  • Realities

• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Champion
  • Compromise
  • Forces

• Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

  

  Egon Friedell
  • Forces
  • Electricity
  • Magnetism

• Big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Result
  • Manipulation
  • Impulse

• The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • History
  • Rule

• This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Point
  • Losing
  • Forces

• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Nature
  • Ambitions
  • Strivings

• We don't believe in fighting other democratic forces of this country.

  

  Arthur Mutambara
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Forces

• What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Space
  • Shapes
  • Variations

• The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Religion
  • Forces
  • Human Judjments

• On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against government forces.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Violence
  • Forces
  • Assurance

• Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Intention
  • Forces
  • Outcome

• All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Forces

• You are one of the forces of nature.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Nature
  • Forces

• The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • President
  • Republic
  • Commander

• The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

  

  Josh Hamilton
  • Control
  • Places
  • Forces

• As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Result
  • Forces

• Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Death
  • Thoughts
  • Destroying

• The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Desire
  • Forces
  • Illusions

• Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Attention
  • Decision
  • Energies

• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Adventure
  • Events
  • Madness

• In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Thinking
  • Intelligence
  • Forces

• I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

  

  Ardel Wray
  • Life
  • Move
  • Forces

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