Force famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
-- Abdul Kalam -
To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
-- Adrienne Rich -
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
-- Alan Garner -
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
-- Alan Rickman -
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
-- Alex Grey -
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
-- Algernon Sidney -
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
-- Alison Croggon -
POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.
-- Ana Ortiz -
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
-- Andrew Weil -
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
-- Ang Lee -
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
-- Angela Merici -
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
-- Anne Lamott -
To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
-- Anne Rice -
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.
-- Ardant du Picq -
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
-- Arthur Eddington -
YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!
-- Arthur Jensen -
You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
-- Avis Bohlen -
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
-- B. F. Skinner -
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.
-- Basil King -
People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.
-- Ben Hogan -
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
-- Benjamin Walker -
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
-- Bob Kerrey -
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
-- Brian Eno -
I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
-- Bridget Riley -
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
-- Bruce Feiler -
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
-- Bruce Lee -
One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.
-- Bruce Montague -
But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
-- Caitlin Moran -
The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
-- Cal Thomas -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.
-- Cameron Crowe -
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
-- Cameron Dokey -
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
-- Carnie Wilson -
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.
-- Cassandra Clare -
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
-- Celeste Ng -
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
-- Charles Babbage -
The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
-- Charles Ferguson -
Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
-- Charles Fletcher Dole -
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
-- Chris Chocola -
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
-- Chris Hedges -
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.
-- Christopher Bond -
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
-- Chuck Hagel -
Satanic forces are here and they are not friendly!
-- Chuck Missler -
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
-- Confucius -
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
-- Coretta Scott King -
Love is the strongest force in the world.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
-- D. Harlan Wilson -
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
-- Dallas Willard -
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
-- Daniel De Leon -
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
-- Daniel Dennett -
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.
-- Darius I -
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
-- Dave Barry -
I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
-- David Bezmozgis -
Business must be a force for good in the world.
-- David Cooperrider -
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
-- David Harvey -
Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.
-- David Icke
