Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.

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

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.

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.

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.