Force Quotes

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.