Top 1200 Excessive Force Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.

My point is that I am pro-life but I still believe that I do not have a right to force a woman to do anything with her body, the same way that I can't force somebody to come to Jesus Christ.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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.

Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.

Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

I can't go more than 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive.

Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.