Forcing Quotes

288 quotes by 260 authors

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense… — Steven Pinker
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off. — Allen Carr
...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not… — John Yudkin
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in… — Bob Lutz
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.… — Matthew Scully
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this… — Gordon Cooper
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool.… — Bill Gates
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. — Vasily Chuikov
There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think… — Haruki Murakami
No oneâ€™s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick… — Dave Eggers
I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it. — Ziggy Marley
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans… — Conan O'Brien
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by… — A.C. Grayling
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes… — Peter Welch
The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. — Susan Faludi
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? — Robert Nozick
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .… — Thomas Jefferson
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels… — Lucretius

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