Quotes of: Physical-force Keyword

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

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

William Shenstone

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

David Chipperfield

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

David Whyte

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

Patricia Heaton

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

Reggie Watts

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

Artificial Gods

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Anna Karenina

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Annihilation

People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.

The Incrementalists

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

Jaws

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

Killosophy

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

Scaramouche

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

Sweetwater Creek

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

The Selection

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Man's Search for Himself