Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Persuasion is better than force.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

Regulations force people to do better.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

Satanic forces are here and they are not friendly!

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

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.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

Society forces you to conform.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

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.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...