Top 1200 Overwhelming Force Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.

America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

'X-Force' #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of 'X-Force' #2 is Deadpool. It's not X-Force, It's Deadpool.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

Matter is capable of infinite subdivision...All matter is in a state of perpetual activity [motion], whether the substance under consideration be inanimate or animated, visible or invisible...There is no dividing of matter and force into two distinct terms, as they both are ONE. FORCE is liberated matter. MATTER is force in bondage.

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

I feel like everyone, at least all teenagers these days, wears Air Force 1s or Converse. But I would much rather have Air Force 1s over Converse for sure. I think Air Force 1s are cooler and they're more comfortable.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

I can't force anybody on stage. I can't force anybody into a studio. I can't force anyone anywhere.

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.