Force Quotes
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Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
Thomas Kyd
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
Marcel Proust
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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
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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.
Eleanor Perenyi
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I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.
Michel Martelly
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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
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For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.
Bette Ford
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Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
Adam Kokesh
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
Herodotus
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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.
Elizabeth May
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Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
Strom Thurmond
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To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.
Bram van Velde
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Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
Harry Shearer
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I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.
Zach Condon
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That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers who don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.
Haskell Wexler
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I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
Wess Stafford
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Stephen Ambrose
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Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
Avis Bohlen
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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?
Martin Luther
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My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.
Steve Stivers