The Force Quotes

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

No religion can be built on force.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

America rules the world - by force.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.