Forces Us Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
— Niels Bohr
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the…
— Frederick William Robertson
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it…
— William James
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Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.
— Sam Cawthorn
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
— John Tukey
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Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously…
— Marianne Williamson
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the…
— Gilles Deleuze
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Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation)…
— Cheri Huber
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Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover…
— Gerald Lawson Sittser
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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
— Julia Penelope
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
— George Eliot
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It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of…
— John Keats
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A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
— Lynn Nottage
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating…
— Umberto Eco
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Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that…
— David Hilbert
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to…
— Natasha Trethewey
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Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the…
— Laura Miller
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A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.
— Joseph Sobran
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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Who Wrote These Forces Us Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 60 Forces Us Quotes, led by these top contributors: