We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez

Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
Phil Jackson

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
John Travolta

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes