Force Quotes · Page 235

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

— David Chang

There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If…

— Francis Collins

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces…

— Carl von Clausewitz

I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating…

— Rajneesh

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but…

— Sally Mann

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality…

— Camille Paglia

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

— Wole Soyinka

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,…

— Jacques Ellul

Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the…

— Mike Caro

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

— Tim Lebbon

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force.

— Elaine Maxwell

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

— Laozi

The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but…

— Mark Shields

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is…

— Frederick Lenz

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's…

— Sarah Palin

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

— Ayn Rand

Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the…

— Paul A. Baran

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

— Mike Huckabee

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

— Paul Cezanne

Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.

— Benny Gantz

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

— Confucius

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative…

— Ralph Adams Cram

I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the…

— Joseph Stalin

A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its…

— Diane Ackerman

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both…

— Ernst Thalmann

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or…

— Ann Bridge

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of…

— Vijay Prashad

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For…

— Anatole France

I mean,[Marco] Rubio, he`s having fun. I`ve got to say I`ve never seen him enjoy himself out there so much. He`s found…

— Chris Hayes

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew…

— Cintra Wilson

Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts…

— Daria Werbowy

And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean…

— Hunter S. Thompson

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

— Sol Wachtler

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to…

— Robert Fritz

It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of…

— Johanna Drucker