Top 100 Force Is Quotes
#1. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
Mark Lawrence
#2. Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the universe. It is the process of making you separate from it, others, nature, and the universe.
Emily Maroutian
#3. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
#4. Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.
Sam Weiss
#5. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. Death is sad, but to those closest to the deceased it is greater than that, it is a catastrophe, an off-the-Richter-scale, ground-shaking earthquake, a gale force fuck hurricane, a three-story-high rolling tsunami that knocks you flat, sweeps you away and strips you bare.
Anonymous
#7. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Jonathan Barnbrook
#8. There are many photographs which are full of life but
which are confusing and difficult to remember.
It is the force of an image which matters.
Brassai
#9. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mark Shepard
#10. Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts.
-Istak
F. Sionil Jose
#11. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#12. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
Adolf Hitler
#13. This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.
Jeremy Clarkson
#14. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Jonah Lehrer
#15. A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
Peter DeFazio
#16. Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure - especially during the years of adolescence - is an almost irresistible force.
Billy Graham
#17. Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
Nathaniel Branden
#18. Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
Maurice Sendak
#19. True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
Dorothy Day
#20. The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.
Robert Redford
#21. It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
Nicole Jordan
#22. 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg
#23. Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
Confucius
#24. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Rumi
#25. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.
Fernando Pessoa
#26. The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone
Chris Colfer
#27. When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
Joichi Ito
#28. He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once
in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe
into anything he wishes.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.
William Hartung
#32. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth
#33. Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#35. I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt ...
George Kukla
#36. It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
Menander
#37. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!
Garth Stein
#38. Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian..
Bhagat Singh
#39. It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.
Frederick Lenz
#40. As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
John O. Brennan
#41. My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.
John Darnielle
#42. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.
Anonymous
#43. What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Tullian Tchividjian
#44. What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles
#45. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#46. In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.
Charles Edward Merriam
#47. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#48. Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#49. Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
Leonid Andreyev
#50. The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.
Napoleon Hill
#51. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off.
Andrea Randall
#52. Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.
Liu Cixin
#53. The orgasm is humanity's driving force. Time freezes and there isn't a feeling of loss, a void, a little death, but a reminder that of all earthly activity, none is more perfect.
Chloe Thurlow
#54. Fighting is a way to force something to happen.
Sam Sheridan
#55. This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend!
It doth control and also doth obey?
And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,
'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self?
What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r!
Aye: frailty, thy name
belike
is Force.
Ian Doescher
#56. Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.
Deepak Chopra
#57. There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market.
Robert Wright
#58. Such is the force of Happiness
The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson
#59. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.
Isaac Asimov
#60. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially. ... In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him. ... He is always and everywhere. ... He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5
James Gleick
#63. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
#65. Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
Monica Ali
#66. An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#67. Union with Christ is the foundational basis for sanctification and the dynamic force that empowers it.
Robert Letham
#68. He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.
Jason Jordan
#70. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#71. Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.
Paul LePage
#72. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
John Steinbeck
#73. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Henning Mankell
#74. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#75. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#76. Rape is about power, nt sex. It's about using force or the threat of it to take control over another person.
Michelle Hodkin
#77. Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#78. Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
Rob Bell
#79. DYNAM comes from the Greek dynamis, meaning "power." A dyne is a unit used in measuring force; an instrument that measures force is called a dynamometer. And when Alfred Nobel invented a powerful explosive in 1867, he named it dynamite.
Merriam-Webster
#80. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher
#83. 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.
Bruce Lee
#84. So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
William James
#85. Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.
Balroop Singh
#86. The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
Janet Malcolm
#87. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.
Robert Ardrey
#88. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?
Aesop
#90. It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.
Li Keqiang
#91. Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger
#92. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
John Henry Newman
#93. Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
Caroline Myss
#95. My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
John W. Rogers Jr.
#96. There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily
#97. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
#98. There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace.
Deepak Chopra
#99. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
William H. Seward
#100. Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
Georgette Mosbacher
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