Forcing Quotes

288 quotes by 260 authors

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -… — Virginia Woolf
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa
I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come. — Viswanathan Anand
For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing… — Felicia Day
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I… — Douglas Rushkoff
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force… — C.S. Lewis
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a… — Neal Stephenson
You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that… — Alex Sanchez
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown… — Aldous Huxley
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that… — David James Duncan
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of… — Tom Wolfe
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way. — K.J. Parker
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didnâ€™t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing… — Richard Yates
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go… — J.P. Moreland
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. — Charles Eisenstein

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