Force Quotes

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky ... a pulsating force of incredible energy.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

We have become a force of nature.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.

There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.

You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.

Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

The real Christmas comes to him who has taken Christ into his life as a moving, dynamic, vitalizing force. The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.