Force Quotes - Page 16

• The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

  Louis-Philippe I of France

  Character, Quality, Useless

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• Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

  Garth Nix

  Ancient

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.37, Hot Key Books

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• Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Home, Men, Emotional

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• The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

  Herbert Spencer

  Work Out, Perfect, Suffering

  Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.416

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• Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

  Marilyn Manson

  Opinion, Humans, Persons

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Moving, Reflection, Divine Power

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• I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kings, Taken, Blessing

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• I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Special, Path

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• And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

  Katherine Dunn

  Military, Soldier, Terrorist Groups

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

  William Winwood Reade

  Future, Men, Land

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.514

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• I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

  Louis Pierre Mouillard

  Men, Air, Eagles

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• Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Adventure, Men

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• Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Power, Doe, Frequency

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

  Christopher Penczak

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Christopher Penczak (2002). “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development”, p.25, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.

  Laurence McKinley Gould

  Spiritual, Believe, Future

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• Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

  Mary Karr

  Running, Wish, Full Potential

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• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  Zane Grey

  Doe, Stay With Me, Novel

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• We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

  Les Aspin

  Should Have, Done, Damage

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• What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mean, Fighting, Enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

  Dion Fortune

  Three, Phases, Dimensions

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.17, Dion Fortune

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• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Soul, Creation

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

  Curt Weldon

  Florida, People, Special

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• I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Mother, Giving

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• Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

  Langdon Winner

  Powerful, Technology, Acting

  Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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