Force Quotes · Page 54

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.

— Ivanka Trump

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

— Oprah Winfrey

“Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world.”

— Kathy Acker

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

— John Milton

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

— Max Weber

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

— Aesop

The second doorway has to do with vitality. It's about feeling alive, vital, and feeling the life-force flow through us. This doorway…

— Marci Shimoff

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I…

— Robin Hobb

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only…

— Georg Brandes

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within…

— Orison Swett Marden

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts…

— James Freeman Clarke

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between…

— Eugenio Montale

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You…

— Christopher Reeve

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it…

— Edmund Spenser

I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my…

— Rand Paul

It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel…

— Galen Strawson

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for…

— Paul Feyerabend

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can…

— Max Planck

I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized…

— Geoffrey Cowan

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn…

— Chinua Achebe

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one…

— Vannoccio Biringuccio

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

— Kofi Annan

Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.

— Johannes Itten

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

— May Sarton

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

— Sophie Swetchine

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

— Honore de Balzac

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

— Anonymous

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

— Dalai Lama

When you pull something down, it comes back with full force. And that's how it's with me.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

— Robert Gilpin

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

— Joe Sestak

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

— Honore de Balzac

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

— William Rotsler

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

— Ernest Jones

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

— Dick Gregory

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

— Glenn Greenwald

Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.

— Jack Keane