Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

Trust is a great force multiplier.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.