Quotes about Force
When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced.
- Charles Swindoll
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
- Toni Morrison
Religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.
- George Weigel
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
- Marcus Aurelius
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
- Albert Schweitzer
That great artillery of God Almighty.
- William Temple
it came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.
- JM Coetzee
Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?--
- Jack Kerouac
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
- Madeleine Albright
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
- Ayn Rand
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
- Zig Ziglar
Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be reckoned with.
- Tana French