The Force Quotes
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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.
No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.
What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.
The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.
Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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?
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.
I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.
Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.
Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.