Quotes about Force, page 3

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be...

Quote by Franz Kafka about force

Where patience fails, force prevails.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about force

Maternal instinct is stronger than any force known except an IRS collection agent.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about force

If it doesn't fit, force it, if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about force

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Quote by Camille Paglia about force

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those...

Quote by Evan Parker about force

I had a friend who was older than me, and he used to go to New York and buy these strange records and try to force them on me.

Quote by Andy Partridge about force

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions, concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about force

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions, desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about force

Justice without force is powerless, force without justice is tyrannical.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about force

Law, without force, is impotent.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about force

I cannot force the Legislature, in particular the state Assembly, to pass the budget.

Quote by George Pataki about force

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in...

Quote by Walter Pater about force

Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us: it rusts iron and ripens corn.

Quote by Walter Pater about force

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group...

Quote by Ron Paul about force

I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that...

Quote by Ron Paul about force

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually...

Quote by Ron Paul about force

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Quote by Ron Paul about force

Certainly the idea of an international police force effective against a big disturber of the peace seems today unrealizable to the point of absurdity.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about force

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about force