Quotes of: Powerful-force Keyword

Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don’t want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!

E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.

A Familiar Beast

If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to be married as well?

Fear of Fifty

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.

Flawed

A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain's heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note.

Fool

The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.

Flaws of Oblivion

Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision. It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose.

Fury

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Frostbite

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

A Familiar Rain

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

The Fault in Our Stars

A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn’t force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn’t happen. And it didn’t.

Growing Up Amish

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

His eyes ignited into a color found only in the heart of the sun. ‘‘Yes?’’ ‘‘Yes, already. I’ll marry you. Yes. Hell, yes. What am I, stupid?

Gale Force

This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

The Garden Intrigue

There is no fortune greater than peace; there is no force greater than peace; there is no excellent tapas greater than peace; there is no immortal life greater than [living in] peace.

Guru Vachaka Kovai

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Good Reading

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;

The History of Great Britain: the Reigns of James I and Charles I

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

The Hunt for Kohinoor

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom