Force Quotes

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

My driving force is spirituality.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.