Uncontrollable Force Quotes

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try, but it will slip under the cracks every time.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

Man blindly works the will of fate.

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Celebrity has become an uncontrollable force, divorced from any sense of achievement.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.