Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.

Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

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.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

Persuasion is better than force.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.