Force Quotes
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
Zane Grey
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As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.
John Travolta -
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 -
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
Laura Esquivel -
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 -
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
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds -
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 -
“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan -
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 -
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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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 -
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau -
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 -
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 -
Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
Eino Leino
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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 -
MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.
Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran -
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi