Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.

If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

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.

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

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