Force Quotes · Page 53

FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

— Valerie Jarrett

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

— Alfred North Whitehead

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

— Aristotle

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

— Monica Ali

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

— Helen Keller

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

— Henry James

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

— James Wolfe

a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend?…

— Jose Saramago

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his…

— Thomas Hobbes

There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you…

— Lisa Gerrard

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern.…

— James Mercer

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The…

— Samuel Chadwick

Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is…

— Horace Bushnell

I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in…

— Mohsin Hamid

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and…

— Flannery O'Connor

In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword…

— Maximilien Robespierre

I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a…

— Therese of Lisieux

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of…

— R. C. Sproul

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to…

— Louis D. Brandeis

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

— Valerie Simpson

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

— Nicholas Payton

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

— John Frederick Boyes

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

— Arlene Francis

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

— Indra Nooyi

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

— Vladimir Yakunin

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

— Anonymous

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

— Hillary Clinton

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

— Kevin O'Leary

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

— Shirin Ebadi

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

— Paul Wolfowitz