Force Quotes
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression.
Michel Foucault -
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.
Eva Ibbotson
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Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist.
Nikola Tesla -
The price for achieving that kind of readiness in our early deploying units has been to accept risk elsewhere in the force.
Eric Shinseki -
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster -
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown -
Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.
Bias of Priene -
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.
Catherine Brady
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Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
Jimmy Carter -
Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
Thomas Kyd -
The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
Ernest Cline -
If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the bible to be infallible, keep Sunday as a holy day, and work for a future reward, then our fight would be at an end instantly. Liberty of Conscience is all we ask - not control of any class, creed, or sect.
Etta Semple -
To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
Alfie Kohn -
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
Marcel Proust
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
Eric Maisel -
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
Herodotus -
Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.
Thomas Sowell -
Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
Barbara Holland -
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
Terence McKenna -
"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
Courtney Milan
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If we all stand together we're a force that can shake the whole world.
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember -
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.
Paul Klee -
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
Wess Stafford -
Let me stress that the use of force will require further decisions.
Javier Solana