Force Quotes
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When Stephen got hurt...it was either a motivating force for the Pacers to get their run, but at the same time he was turning the ball over a lot, so he may have been an asset by default.
Phil Jackson
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.
Lao Tzu
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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
Andrew Cuomo
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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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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
Alexander Lowen
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To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.
George Washington
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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln
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That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
Albert Einstein
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There is a situation where pro-democracy demonstrations have been met with suppression and excessive use of force which has further aggravated the situation and undermines the process of healing and reconciliation which is the only way to resolve the current impasse.
Anand Sharma
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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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Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
William H. Seward
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A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.
John Whiting
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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.
Neil Peart Rush
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Faith is an active creative force.
J. H. Oldham
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
Leon Trotsky
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Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.
Isaac Newton
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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
William Hague
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The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
Edward Bernays
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Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.
Albert Einstein
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Good reasons must of force give place to better.
William Shakespeare