Forcing Quotes

288 quotes by 260 authors

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give… — Candace Bushnell
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's… — Louis Zamperini
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will… — Kristen Britain
He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't… — George R. R. Martin
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to… — Joe Queenan
Writerâ€™s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something Iâ€™ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by… — Orson Scott Card
We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace… — Golda Meir
Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like… — Rick Riordan
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed… — Paulo Coelho
How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half… — Judith McNaught
Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time,… — Patrick Rothfuss
He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to… — Megan Whalen Turner
I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else." "Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a… — J. Lynn
Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you… — Rajneesh
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why,… — Ralph Ellison
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance. — Alain de Botton
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style. — Charlie Hunter
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is… — Stephen Jay Gould
My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to… — Bear Bryant

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