Force Quotes
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Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.
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Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
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I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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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.
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I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.
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I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.
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Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
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If we all stand together we're a force that can shake the whole world.
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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
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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.
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If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
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To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
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Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
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We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
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Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
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Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
