Quotes
Quotes about Force
Force is no remedy.
Youth, large, lusty, loving--Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Time may restore us in his course
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force;
But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.
? John Bartlett, compGood Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will.
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
The fascination of the reprehensible is my true driving force
I will not force apart the jaws of heaven for my precocious entering. Heaven may open in its own good time without my prompting.
Some scenes from one's past hug the mind with the force of a profound symbol impossible to read
The flow of time means nothing in itself, and yet, in ordinary life, we are forced to travel along it
The foul wrong then lay beyond a man's own purposing; there was somewhere, outside time's very beginning, an infinite well of putridity from which body and mind alike were driven, by some force unseen and uncontrollable, to drink
