My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing…

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

— Laura Marling

“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined…

— D.H. Lawrence

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

— Richelieu Dennis

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

When you're forced to go to church all the time, the last thing you want to do is go to church.

— Tabitha Brown

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to…

— Anonymous

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

— Harry Browne

When we first started, me and Rowan hated each other. I don't know what it was. We just didn't get along. We were forced…

— Luke Harper

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Mike Tyson's a phony; he was a phony from the very beginning. A phony from the day he was born; and you can't say…

— Teddy Atlas

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it…

— Avicii

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

— Tove Styrke

The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand…

— Caitlin Moran

I make quite a good veggie or vegan ramen when I'm absolutely forced to cook and that usually turns out quite well.

— Rebecca Front

“He forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going to go all Hunger Games on each other. Isn't going to happen.”

— Rick Riordan