Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be…
— Matthew Arnold
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The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about…
— Parker J. Palmer
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(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces…
— Abraham Maslow
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He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because…
— Hermann Hesse
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I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X…
— Bill Bryson
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Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He is kind of like Yoda... 'There is only do or do not. There is no try.'" That actually succeeded in making her laugh through…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city…
— Richard Yates
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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
— Nick Hornby
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A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it.…
— Margaret Weis
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Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
— Ayn Rand
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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
— Neil Gaiman
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A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through…
— Margaret Atwood
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Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and…
— Paul Auster
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Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself…
— Karen Marie Moning
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She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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