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Force Quotes - Page 12

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

Maurice Blanchot (1992). “The Step Not Beyond”, p.3, SUNY Press

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

"Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

"Kim Basinger on her '11th Hour' role: 'I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. June 12, 2015.

Machination is worth more than force.

"Pantagruel" by François Rabelais, ch. XXVII, 1532.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.5, The Minerva Group, Inc.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.429, Lulu.com

Persuasion is better than force.

Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316