The Force Quotes

I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances with a character or scene.

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

You can't force someone to sell property in America.

[Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis.

The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

I feel so strongly that I use a different word in going around that our forces are depleted - they're depleted.

We're gonna build up our forces, including the Army.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was international before I got home. I did my thing in Japan, and I did it on big stages.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346

Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.