Forced Quotes

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.