Force Quotes

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.

Love is... a positive force of life.

Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.

I have always believed that business should be a force for good.

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.

[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.