Force Quotes

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force. (Prentice Mulford)

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

I'm not trying to force something, but I do enjoy working behind the scenes and I do enjoy bringing all of the ingredients to the kitchen so that we can make the movie.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.