Force Us Quotes

84 Force Us quotes by 75 unique authors

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. — Charles L. Allen
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to… — Leon Jouhaux
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to… — Barack Obama
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard. — May Sarton
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that… — Jonah Lehrer
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or… — Oliver DeMille
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. — Phyllis Schlafly
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us… — Jean-Paul Sartre
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us,… — Richard Bach
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,… — Seneca the Younger
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are… — Lurlene McDaniel
Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when… — Kenneth Lee Pike
I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get… — Emma Bell
Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being… — Susan L. Taylor
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face… — Kofi Annan
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. — Harold W. Dodds
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle… — Jim Morrison
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. — Jawaharlal Nehru
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group. — John C. Reilly
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. — Ivan Turgenev
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough… — Michael Eric Dyson
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into… — Kate Morton
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to… — Derrick Jensen

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