Force Quotes

• Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sleep
  • Presence
  • I Feel

• Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Growing
  • Newton

• Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Happiness
  • Force
  • Lift

• Let me stress that the use of force will require further decisions.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Force
  • Stress
  • Decisions

• You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Law
  • Fighting
  • Methods

• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  

  George Scratchley Brown
  • Country
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

  

  Mike Jackson
  • America
  • Force
  • Nations

• I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

  

  Wess Stafford
  • Children
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • Wonder
  • Period
  • Force

• Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Force
  • Accept
  • Procured

• Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Feelings
  • Talent
  • Insecure

• You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Character
  • Fall
  • Moments

• Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Force
  • Leaders
  • Solutions

• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  

  William Allen White
  • World
  • Men
  • Reason

• I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Obey
  • Orders
  • Warning

• I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

  

  Extra P
  • Force
  • Use

• 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
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Backwards

• I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Driving
  • Force
  • Being

• Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Jesus
  • Atheism
  • Guns

• There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Imagination
  • Facts
  • Strange

• Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • King
  • Failed
  • Behaviour

• 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
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Beauty

• Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Force
  • Error

• You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Understand
  • Force

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