25 Metaphors for energy

Energy is the capacity for labour.

It is interesting and important to remark in passing that the whole kinetic energy of the liquid is the sum of the kinetic energies which it would have in the two cases separately.

He scanned the world with that keen eye of his, saw that American energy was the best supplement to Russian capital; his will darted quickly, struck afar, and Americans came to build his road from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

In any scheme of eugenics, energy is the most important quality to favour; it is, as we have seen, the basis of living action, and it is eminently transmissible by descent.

Energy is an attribute of the higher races, being favoured beyond all other qualities by natural selection.

All his vast energies were thenceforth consecrated to, and concentrated in, the detection of crime.

This considerable intellectual energy, combined with courtesy, was his chief fascination.

It is the measure of fulness of life; the more energy the more abundance of it; no energy at all is death; idiots are feeble and listless.

" "I read this morning that 'the moving energy in the world's history to-day is not a philosophy, but a cross.'

To live in a dull place is bad enoughto live with dull people is bad enough; but to have one's thoughts perpetually occupied with an uncongenial subject, and one's energies devoted to an uncongenial pursuit, is just misery, and nothing short of it!

But it is true that anomalous energies are sources of incessant irritation to their possessor, until they have found their proper vent in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Progressive energy, when it is kept within certain bounds, is a prime asset of an industrial organization.

But it would be absurd to say that the energies of every irrational soul are not the energies of that soul, but of one more divine; since they are infinite, and mingled with much of the base and imperfect.

Energy is to a large extent a question of climate and temperament.

The energy of the old leaderhe was now nearly sixty-eightwas only steeled by the greatness of the danger; his forethought and his mental resources were but increased.

The estimated total energy is 61,200 ft. tons.

Your distinguished director, Professor Thurston, in discussing "Steam and its Rivals," in the Forum, said: "The science of Thermodynamics teaches that heat and mechanical energy are only different phases of the same thing, the one being the motion of molecules, and the other that of masses."

Gustavus Adolphus, too weak in numbers to cope even with Wallenstein's force alone, naturally dreaded the junction of such powerful armies, and the little energy he used to prevent it was the occasion of great surprise.

"Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing; frantic energy was the true character of a man; the lover of violence was always trusted, and his opponent suspected.

Energy, desire, intellect; dangerous and deadly forces in the selfish and impure, become in the pure in heart the greatest forces for good.

Energy is a very different thing from violence.

More energy, and be careful never to trouble him again with such insignificant tales, otherwise the person who would be turned into the street would be Silver Stick himself.

The energy and the ingenuity of man are an over-match even for time.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body, and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

Energy is Eternal Delight.

25 Metaphors for  energy