Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought,…
— Henry Sloane Coffin
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market…
— Bill Gates
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Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't…
— Janet Yellen
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I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
— Simone Weil
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
— W.C. Fields
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Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny…
— Albert Camus
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Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting…
— Loren Eiseley
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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet…
— Gustave Le Bon
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right…
— Neville Chamberlain
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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when…
— John Cleese
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If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
— Bertrand Russell
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the…
— Albert Einstein
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
— Oscar Wilde
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The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social…
— George Roche III
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
— Henry James
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School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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