Resultant Forces Quotes & Sayings

My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember. — Will McIntosh

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. — Sinclair Lewis

That's all I want, to keep losing myself. — Andrew Garfield

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. — Swami Vivekananda

The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area but leave him intact ...
He is an isolated, definitive human datum, in stable equilibrium except for the buffets of the impinging forces that displace him in one direction or another. Self-poised in elemental space, he spins symmetrically about his own spiritual axis until the parallelogram of forces bears down on him, whereupon he follows he line of the resultant — Thorstein Veblen

I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong. — James Weldon Johnson

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way? — Joseph Heller

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. — Jose Rizal

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. — John Henrik Clarke