Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

What a force is laughter.

Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

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

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

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

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

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

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

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

Women power is a formidable force.