Force Quotes
6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors
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This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray…
— George Carlin
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to…
— Condoleezza Rice
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But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our…
— Matthew Arnold
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By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your…
— Bo Schembechler
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The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I…
— David Grossman
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It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and…
— Vera Nazarian
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When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside…
— Jodi Picoult
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It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb…
— Michael Chabon
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice…
— Condoleezza Rice
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I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's…
— Willie Nelson
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Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or…
— Mark Haddon
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Our technology forces us to live mythically
— Marshall McLuhan
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting…
— Michel Foucault
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and…
— Edmund Burke
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn…
— Anne Lamott
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Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.
— Gregory Maguire
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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more…
— Deepak Chopra
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I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If…
— Max Lucado
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