#force

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense. ↗

— Massad Ayoob

#lethal-force #regret #responsibility #death

I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun. ↗

— Kara Martinelli

#humor #letters #longing #love #wwii-history

Fermina Daza n'était plus la fille unique à la fois soumise et tyrannisée par son père,mais la maitresse et la dame d'un empire de poussière et de toiles d'araignée que seule la force d'un amour invincible pourrait remettre debout. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#femme #force #foyer #love

True love is a spiritual force that binds 2 hearts together. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#hearts #spiritual #true-love #love

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#driving-forces #gold #greed #men

Sturm, Swung, Wucht ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#force #general #german #heavy #impulsive

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within. ↗

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

#war #business

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the soul. When a person is not free to love with their soul, that is not love and that is why a love spell can never truly work. ↗

— Nikki Jefford

#force #heart #love #love-spell #nikki-jefford