Force Quotes

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

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.

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.