Force Quotes
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. Michael Straczynski -
It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
Jack Lynch
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It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
Bill Vaughan -
I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.
Theresa May -
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
Zane Grey -
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
Seneca the Younger -
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke -
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
Laura Esquivel
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
Lady Starlight -
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
Albert Einstein -
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.
Octave Mirbeau -
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
Helen Keller -
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds -
“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan -
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau -
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars von Trier -
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
Zane Grey -
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh
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Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.
David Jeremiah -
If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
Jon Bon Jovi -
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
Virginia Postrel