Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

Intellect--brain force.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

I think that life force is invaluable.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.