The Force Quotes

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.