Top 1200 Force And Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.

It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely independent of the electrochemical affinities of matter; I believe, on the contrary, that it is only a new manifestation, but since we cannot see their connection and mutual dependence, it will be easier to designate it by a separate name. I will call this force catalytic force. Similarly, I will call the decomposition of bodies by this force catalysis, as one designates the decomposition of bodies by chemical affinity analysis.

I've never thought much about energy, or a higher power, or the driving force behind someone's purpose.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

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. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.

We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.

You cannot force any woman to do anything against her will, using your power.

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.