Best Forces Us Quotes
60 Forces Us quotes by 56 unique authors
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We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in…
— Clayton Christensen
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
— Gilles Deleuze
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending…
— Albert M. Wolters
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A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image,…
— Joe Meno
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And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels…
— Cornel West
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make…
— May Sarton
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Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us…
— Lady Gaga
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the…
— Tim Holden
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
— Nancy Pearcey
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and…
— Marquis de Sade
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The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes…
— Niels Bohr
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us…
— Arthur Golden
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We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.
— Paulo Coelho
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Our technology forces us to live mythically
— Marshall McLuhan
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Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But…
— Michelle Sagara
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone…
— Wendell Berry
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It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run…
— Henri Nouwen
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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
— Anais Nin
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
— Aeschylus
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And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would…
— Sándor Márai
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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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