Force Quotes
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I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.
Wole Soyinka
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John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary to be a winner in the Game of Life, which makes him the perfect person to write this book filled with lessons. Coach Wooden has been a mentor to people in every walk of life.
Dick Vitale
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Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
William Moulton Marston
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No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
Napoleon Hill
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.
Kathy Bates
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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.
John McCormack
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The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
Baden Powell
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
Immanuel Kant
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When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself
Ida Pauline Rolf
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I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
Oprah Winfrey
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The PMF should be loyal only to Iraq, not to anyone else: loyal to Iraqi official institutions, the commander in chief in the country, rather than political parties or any other force outside or inside Iraq.
Haider al-Abadi
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We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.
Barbara Coloroso
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
William Shakespeare
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According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.
Brandon Spikes
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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Francis Bacon
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
Albert Einstein
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
Richard Holbrooke
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We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
Evel Knievel
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Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
Lauryn Hill Fugees