Force Quotes
6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors
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I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together…
— Christian Marclay
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I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she…
— Jayma Mays
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My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I…
— Jayma Mays
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I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or…
— RJ Mitte
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of…
— Alfred Marshall
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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject…
— David Maraniss
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate…
— David Whyte
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Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce.…
— Ramon Magsaysay
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The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level…
— John Ralston Saul
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I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces,…
— Anthony Zinni
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The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces…
— Wei Jingsheng
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Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual…
— Paul Davies
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Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force.…
— Boris Yeltsin
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I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.
— James Taylor
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If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force…
— Sun Yat-sen
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I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a…
— Gerhard Richter
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Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without…
— Marianne Williamson
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Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.
— David Jeremiah
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Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt…
— Joseph Girzone
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Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world…
— Jennifer James
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Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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