Force Quotes

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
-Nikola Tesla

"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."
-Mark Twain

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
-Mark Twain

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed."
-Mark Twain

". . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them..."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life."
-Clifford Stoll

"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."
-Leon Battista Alberti

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
-Colin Powell

"I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
-M. C. Escher

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
-Horace Mann

"Force has no place where there is need of skill."
-Herodotus

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
-Edmund Burke

"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
-Aesop

"I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force."
-Flavius Josephus

"By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)."
-Cicero

"Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues."
-Thomas Hobbes

"Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis)."
-Cicero

"We like to force the action ... and I thought we played our game."
-Shane Robinson

"This will force government to act."
-Wellington Chibebe

"Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope."
-Jacques Diouf

"Most of these villagers are very old and it is distressing to hear of force being used against them."
-Rajiv Narayan

"He came in with such force."
-Linda Champion