Force Quotes

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Sometimes, it is an external force that makes you realize your real potential.

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.