Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force. - Gary Hopkins
Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec. - J. Hart
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. - Margaret Fuller
Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain. - Peter Brooks
I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law. - Glenn Gould
Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis - Andrew McAfee
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Pleasure is our force for living. Without it we go mad or kill ourselves. - Marty Rubin
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. - Max Lucado
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. - David M. Friedman
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth. - Ambrose Bierce
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By also being devoted and persistent, over time it will reward you with sparkling success. - Mark F. LaMoure
We can find food and beverage companies most face the challenges in sales management due competition and nature of their product. Sales force is get tool for these companies at different level of sales. - pepupsales.com
In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together. - Shannon L. Alder
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. - William James
When the veil of the knower falls away the creative force of discovery guides your way - each moment is revealed as new. - Jon Bernie
We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane." - Jessica Edouard
I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~ - Grigoris Deoudis
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world. - Shahin Najafi
Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped. - Bill Jensen
The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely. - David Cuschieri
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance - Thomas Jefferson
Love is force of being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.I am the force. - Elaine Maxwell
Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the meal. - Auliq Ice
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. - Hypatia
Quran, Bible, BhagwadGita are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others. - honeya
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. - Jacques Ellul
I’m sorry, my lady, said Geric, rubbing his arm. But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. - Shannon Hale
Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved. - Debasish Mridha
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. - Nikola Tesla
That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that. - Norah Vincent
The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence. - Anthony Collins
Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us? - Katharine Hepburn
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? - George Wallace
Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don’t overpower you. - Grace Helbig
And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones. - Jill Lepore
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. - Emma Goldman
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease. - H.L. Mencken
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. - Roger Starr
Water is the driving force in nature. - Leonardo da Vinci
The universe is a life giving force that is part of us. It flows in harmony through us guiding our every step. It maintain the harmony and flow of life. It gives us the passion and the knowledge we need to live and be inspired by. Yet in return, it is inspired by the human spirit - Sameh Elsayed
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. - Paul Hoffman
Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren’t all that savory. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. - Aesop
I don’t know about you but I do know I am a great woman and a gift unto my generation. I am a blessing to the world and I have a voice to be heard. I will make a great positive impact in the world and I would be a great force to be reckoned with. That is the power I have as a woman. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena. - Nikola Tesla
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? - Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process. - Steve Maraboli
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. - Arnold Bennett
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory - Douglas M. Laurent
The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own. - Shannon L. Alder
Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy – acceptance. - Amanda L. Chan
True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. - Chris Messner
Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself. - Daniel Kehlmann
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. - Carl Zwanzig
The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind. - Titus Lucretius Carus
I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens. - Angeli Maun Akey
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean. - John Banville
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place. - Christian B. Anfinsen
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. - Plato
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes
Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won’t sparkle in the sunshine, he’ll just marry you. - Nick Shamhart
You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you. - Raphael Zernoff
Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. - John Locke
The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth. - The Truth
A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been. - John Williams
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand
The only truly logical explanation that gives credence to the fact that information does not come from non-information, is that some outside force – some uncaused cause – existed before us and formed us in His image. If there is a creation there must be a creator. - J.W. Lord
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Ludwig van Beethoven
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. - B.R. Ambedkar
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. - Flavius Josephus
I am the only force strong enough to stop me. - Naya S. Wood
Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time. - Debasish Mridha
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all. - Vironika Tugaleva
Love is the most mysterious force in the universe.It locks two souls together across space and time.Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else.It was that shard of light that transformed a dark soul forever.Now let that love burn bright like a sun for eternity… - Kion Ahadi
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. - George Washington
When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces. - Jim Morrison
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. - J.I. Packer
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process. - Henry James
I am beautiful, one with cosmos, life force, eternal abundance, joy, vitality, infinite consciousness. - Jay Woodman
Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. - Amy Leigh Mercree
There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience. - Anthon St. Maarten
Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force. - Michael Bassey Johnson
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. - Martin Luther King Jr.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - Peter Marshall
Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist. - Orrin Woodward
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain
There is no force in the universe that can harm you, unless you allow it to. - Abhijit Naskar
Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time - Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. - Ayn Rand
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. - Napoleon Bonaparte
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an all powerful, endless, mysterious, miraculous, primordial, attractive force that flows from one heart to another to unfold the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha
Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces? - Frédéric Bastiat
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Sid Ziff
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. - Esther Perel
When in doubt, use brute force
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
All the tough lessons in life are meant for negative ending to positive beginning. Like fall to spring. During such time nature warn us to alter everything in our life including mind. Such transformation are vital and essential. If we don't alter nature create force of destruction. - Aditya Ajmera
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar! - Anne Frank
When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it. - Majid Kazmi
A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies. - M.F. Moonzajer
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. - Chaim Weizmann
l'oubli dont je commençais à sentir la force et qui est un si puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité parce qu'il détruit peu à peu le passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle. - Marcel Proust
Like an alchemical wave sending ripples of love to every part of our being, once we become conscious of an intelligent life force existing within us, everything changes. - Atalina M Homan
Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independent of the will and co-action of every other… - Immanuel Kant
ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance. - Bono
Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor - Israelmore Ayivor
And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a serious work and are heaping up sweetness, depth and force for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to express inexpressible ecstasies - Rainer Maria Rilke
Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do. - Joyce Rachelle
Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known - Bob Proctor
I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from. - Sue Whitaker
Leaders don't force people to follow - they invite them on a journey.
Within her presence, I had once been usedto feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution;but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,now she was veiled, could not see her directly,by way of hidden force that she could move,I felt the mighty power of old love. - Dante Alighieri
When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed. - Luis Marques
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. - James Madison, the tenth Federalist Paper
Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others. - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. - Albert Einstein
There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions. - Mark A.R. Kleiman
He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well. - Don Sutton
If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force. - Sun Tzu 孙子
There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past. - James Rozoff
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. - Kofi Annan
Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on. - Paulo Coelho
Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability. - Benjamin Harrison
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. - Adam Gopnik
Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves. - Herbert Spencer
And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones. - Jill Lepore
For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force. - Natalya Vorobyova
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. - Louis Schwartzberg
Prayer is a connection from your heart with a force that is powerful beyond measure, loves unconditionally and impartially, and embraces you whenever you turn to it. - Pooja Ruprell
The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven’t done. - M.F. Moonzajer
NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live... - Yukiru Sugisaki
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor) - Florie Jo Alicer
Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul. - Debasish Mridha
Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin - Sunday Adelaja
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. - Jonathan Haidt
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star... - E.E. Cummings
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. - Ramsay Clark
A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne."On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) - Olivier Weber
Quran, Bible, BhagwadGita are your (as an follower's) way of life and not every-ones way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others. - honeya
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? - Rainer Maria Rilke
As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument. - Michael Brett Turner
Don't force it, if there isn't flow let it go. - Nikki Rowe
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. - Virginia Woolf
Forget about raping her, do not even force her, verbally or even emotionally.I bet you will not enjoy the act for even a moment!You will feel good only when she feels good and enjoys the act with her consent! - honeya
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic. - Tom Robbins
In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose. - G.K. Chesterton
Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis) - Cicero
Doubt births negative confessions; it hinders God’s promises and it spurs thedevil into action! Don’t give the devil any propelling force against your life!God is able in all situations; only when you believe! - Ayobola Olusegun-Emmanuel
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you. - Martin Luther King Jr.
cela fait si longtemps que ça dure que j'ai cessé de me demander si c'est dans la haine ou dans l'amour que nous trouvons la force de continuer cette vie mensongère, que nous puisons l'énergie formidable qui nous permet encore de souffrir, et d'espérer. - Georges Perec
The light is amber, the air still; the daylilies have folded in on themselves. Soon, the hooded blue of dusk will fall, followed by the darkness of night and the sky writing of the stars, indecipherable to us mortals, despite our attempts to force narrative upon them. - Elizabeth Berg
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. - Jim Morrison
Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life. - Rian Dawson
There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow. - Robert Tew
I don't know how to hate; It requires the same force as love for me. APATHY is the answer I find. - Anshika Verma
I belong to no one. On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again. - Marie Lu
Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life. - Amit Abraham
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. - Thomas Jefferson
"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . - Peter Drucker
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. - Brenda Ueland
Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized. - Sam Weiss
Love is the greatest force in the universe. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything. - Derric Yuh Ndim
True love is a spiritual force that binds 2 hearts together. - Ellen J. Barrier
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. - Winston S. Churchill
But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life - Louise Penny
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force. - C.G. Jung
FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just." The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!" - Ambrose Bierce
I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.--Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4) - Mary Calmes
The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. - Waseem Latif
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. - Ludwig von Mises
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering. - Nobuyuki Fukumoto
I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward. - Debasish Mridha
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... - Carl Zwanzig
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken. - Jonathan Sacks
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. - Rudolf Rocker
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King
In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment. - Debasish Mridha
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. - Gelett Burgess
Love is the mighty force of mind, soul and body. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-confidence is divine force. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the creative force of this universe. - Debasish Mridha
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. - Mahatma Gandhi
In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis) - Cicero
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. - Ansel Adams
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill
The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us. - Geoffrey Reiter
When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton - W.H. Auden
Strength conquers weakness through force. Weakness conquers strength through seduction,the look and feel of ease, the illusion of rest without responsibility,and the hallucination of unaccountability in general. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth. - The Truth
Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways. - Hany Ghoraba
If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument. - Alija Izetbegović
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. - Tony Dungy
Don’t surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don’t be a Slave, be Brave. - RVM
Fire can destroy everything, but it is also the most important creative force. - Debasish Mridha
POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. - Ambrose Bierce
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life. - Clifford Stoll
The most powerful force on earth is residing in your heart; it is your power of love. - Debasish Mridha
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory - Douglas M. Laurent
The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. - Aesop
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. - Oprah Winfrey
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
Our thoughts and emotions strain our life force, drain our energy, carrying us away, cutting us from the people we are with and the beauty of places we are in. - Canny Gogia
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Sir Winston Churchill
Don't make excuses for your mistakes.Don't try to please your enemies.Don't run from your responsibilities.Don't force your opinions on others.Don't complain about things you can change.Don't compare yourself to anyone.Don't let undeserving people into your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need - Tanja Taaljard
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. - Confucius
Vision is the secret behind a life of passion, it motivates people to go through life with force - George Ifeanyi
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly free state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. - Tiffany Madison
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. - George Orwell
Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur. - Robert B. Reich
Accept the life that comes. Work and strive, but accept. Don't force the world to be the one you dream. - Susan Spencer Wendell
An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her! - J.C. Spencer
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer - Rainer Maria Rilke
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. - Steve Jobs
Ce qui m'affecte au plus profond, c'est qu'un vocabulaire trompeur remporte la victoire sur le vocabulaire normal. Le triomphe de la force est terrible; le triomphe de la force dans et par le mensonge est horrible. - Edgar Morin
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. - John Heywood
Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt. - Kenneth Eade
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government. - George Reisman
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. - Patrick Henry
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. - Gordon Atkinson
If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world. - Tim Fargo
It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. - George Washington
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right - Miguel de Unamuno
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski
When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer
...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011). - Mikkel Wallentin
Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual. - Gautama Buddha
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. - Emanuel Ax
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. - Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do. - Nick Hornby
Faith is the force of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same. - Auliq Ice
I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to. - Susanna Kaysen
Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. - Alistair Cross
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. - Hippocrates
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding - Jacob Bronowski
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. - Ryan Lilly
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. - Lois McMaster Bujold
If the issues of life push at you push back with such force that they fall off the universe. - Phumi Ngwane
Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character - Hiyamedia
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. - Gautama Buddha
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. - John Milton
Love is the force that keeps every part of our lives in property alignment. - Toni Sorenson
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. - Elaine Maxwell
LOVE is the most powerful human force!! Let's practice it to improve the fate of humanity!First self love,then love to others and our environment.LOVE is humble,patient,humble patient,charming,it's wonderful feeling! - S.Remolina
Is there a force that holds people together? Sure... But you can only tell so when it is growing weaker - Devjeet Chawdhary
I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless. - Anna Agoncillo
We want to stay in the sunlight from now on. Efforts to force us back in the closet could be disastrous for all concerned. - Dick Leitsch
Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you’ve left their presence. - Mollie Marti
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out. - Aaron Lauritsen
Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart. - Debasish Mridha
The universe is a deep, still body of water in which we all swim. Every move that we make creates a ripple that echoes across reality – and the deeper that we swim, the more force those waves carry and the farther they may span. - Cristen Rodgers
I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow,no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon. - Auliq-Ice
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. - Baruch Spinoza
Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier. - Colin Powell
Peace’s gravitational force – a force of possibility! from Cinderella In Focus - H.L. Balcomb
When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it. - Stephanie Lahart
I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. - Marcel Duchamp
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression. - Storm Constantine
Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups. - Bastiat, Frederick
True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one. - Ellen J. Barrier
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success. - Debasish Mridha
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill
Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success. - Debasish Mridha
When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with some unknown, unmentionable force, then he will emerge into the New Age of enlightenment. - Daniel Logan
Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture. - Italo Calvino
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you can achieve a smile and a laugh, you can chase any demons away - L.F. Young
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. - Henry James
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. - Joseph Farrell
love an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy. - Aonymous girl
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand. - Oprah Winfrey
I will never be scared to love me.I am a force to be reckoned with.I am beautiful. - Alexandra Elle
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington
Love is the greatest force to change human heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside. - David Hawkins
Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions. - Debasish Mridha
The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to. - Kimberly Giles
Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments. - Stella Payton
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - W. C. Fields
We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane. - Jessica Edouard
It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force. - Mamur Mustapha
Love is the magnetic and attracting force between you and meand the beauty,and the world and everything in it. - Debasish Mridha
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though we are whole, beings with bodies and souls, with cosmos in our eyes and black heart holes, we love as fiercely as the force of creation. - Hubert Martin
What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all. - Toni Sorenson
If you don't want a man to lie,don't force him to reply. - Volodymyr Knyr
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. - Toba Beta
I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini
Life is a powerful force, it either make you or break you. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. - Mark Skousen
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. - Quentin Crisp
The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster. - H. L. Balcomb
Death is a force, not a man in a horse - Dry the River
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! - Laurie Anderson
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength. - Lao-Tzu
The most attractive force is a smile. - Debasish Mridha
Forced connections are the worst. Stop tryna force people to love you, to like you, to be in ya life etc. You just gon end up emotionally exhausted. If they not putting in the same effort as you, leave em alone. - Amal Fh
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. - Horace
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds. - C. JoyBell C.
You cannot force a dry well to yield water. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
With the greatest force within, you can go farther. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By using these ideas, over time they will reward you with sparkling success. - Mark F. LaMoure
When we force something to fit where it doesn't belong, it breaks. When surrounded by people who can't appreciate our beauty, humans essentially do the same. - Kayla Krantz
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. - Denise Caruso
You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart. - Ashly Lorenzana
Love is the greatest personal force. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. - Phillip Connors
Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends. - Evelyn Waugh
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. - Anthony Trollope
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. - Tom Wolfe
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. - Audre Lorde
Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself. - Ken Poirot
Force has no place where there is need of skill. - Herodotus
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. - Paulo Coelho
In science, work (W) is done when force (F) move a body through a distance (D). It is the same with our every day affairs. When you don't progress, no work is done irrespective of the force (power) you have - Israelmore Ayivor
Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them. - H.P. Lovecraft
Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly. - Balroop Singh
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. - Mary Oliver
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. - Ann Radcliffe
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. - William James
The force is within you, force yourself. - Harrison Ford
It’s about letting yourself feel, but not wallow; it’s about leaning into love, not fear, as the preferred force in your life. - Sheila Burke
Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon's sight! - A.H. Scott
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within. - Alfred Thayer Mahan
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy. - Albert Camus
Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect - cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something. - Jasper Fforde
There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State. - Murray N. Rothbard
Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion. - Dada Bhagwan
Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it. - Munia Khan
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. - Elena Ferrante
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. - Woodrow Wilson
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life. - Rachel Naomi Remen
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent. - Marcus Valerius Martialis
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. - James M. Barrie
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence. - Richelle E. Goodrich
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. - Albert Einstein
When you appreciate anything or love anything, you attract it with the universal force of attraction. - Debasish Mridha
To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. - Steven Galloway
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. - Ovid
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force. - John Chrysostom
Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence. - Rachel Bespaloff
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant. - Denise Levertov
No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.And precious. - V.S. Carnes
The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced. - Christian D. Larson
We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve. - S. Kelley Harrell
What force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. - Arthur Lydiard
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H.L. Mencken
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values. - Sunday Adelaja
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. - George Washington
Love is a two-way game, you cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you, better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you and that will be right with you. - Auliq Ice
If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. - Dick Gregory
My illness is dut to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive. - John Steeksma
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. - James Cameron
The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power]. - Ron Nielsen
They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again. - Robert Peate
we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. - Alan Chadwick
When perseverance becomes a force of habit, success becomes a guarantee. - Tarryn Tomlinson
Higher states of consciousness correlate strongly with attributes like compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. The more one is self-aware and other-aware, and the greater one's connection with the spiritual, the more likely one will be a force for good in our world. - Philip Chard
I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at. - Rick Yancey
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand. - Confucius
There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. - Fernán Caballero
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master. - A.D. Posey
His scent engulfed me - fresh night air and evergreen. I buried my face in the hollow beneath his jaw as he shoved his Light into me- a terrible force of the sort I'd never imagined, hungry for distraction, intoxicating to the point of addiction. - Jocelyn Adams
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. - André Malraux