The Force Quotes

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer...be happier...grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

I'm not opposed to the use of force.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.