The Force Quotes
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.
When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.
There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.
In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate that right to clients, but it's not for others.
I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.
What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
Can't we kidnap Old Jethro, force him to help us, then vanquish him and the healer?" Bran choked on his drink.