Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

When in doubt, use brute force.

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

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

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

Women power is a formidable force.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

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

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

You are the most powerful force in your life.

You are one of the forces of nature.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.

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

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.