Quotes of: Brute-force Keyword

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

David Whyte

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

Patricia Heaton

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

Reggie Watts

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

Artificial Gods

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Anna Karenina

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Annihilation

People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.

The Incrementalists

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

Jaws

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

Killosophy

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

Scaramouche

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

Sweetwater Creek

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

The Selection

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Man's Search for Himself

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord is being planted in your relationship.

Master of Stupidity

There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.

Made You Up

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

The Left Hand of God

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

Losing It