Force Quotes - page 6

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. (Leon Jouhaux)
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. View quote
Loretta Young
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group. View quote
John C. Reilly
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. View quote
Barbara Deming
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. View quote
David Soul
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. View quote
Dwight Schultz
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. View quote
Ida Tarbell
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. View quote
Laurence Housman
Arabs respect only the language of force. (Moshe Sharett)
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. View quote
Robert McChesney
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. View quote
José Martí
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world. View quote
John McCain
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies. View quote
Adin Ballou
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself. View quote
James Agate
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil. View quote
James Madison
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel