Force Quotes

6532 quotes by 3878 authors

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic… — Leo Buscaglia
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a… — Miguel de Cervantes
While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it. — Nachman of Breslov
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you… — Elizabeth Taylor
Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to… — Therese of Lisieux
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time. — Judith Orloff
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of… — Samuel Johnson
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable… — Tom Robbins
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for… — Melody Beattie
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. — Thomas Berry
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a… — Henri Nouwen
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to… — Amiri Baraka
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. — Daniel Ellsberg
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame

Who Wrote These Force Quotes

3,878 authors contributed a total of 6,532 Force Quotes, led by these top contributors: