“ I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are. ”
- Edwin Arlington Robinson- Copy
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“ I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem… ”
- Sidney Madwed- Copy
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“ I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs… ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
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“ The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. ”
- Phillip Lopate- Copy
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“ Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ”
- W.C. Fields- Copy
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“ I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.1K
“ He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. ”
- Peter Borden- Copy
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“ I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. ”
- Frances Moore Lappe- Copy
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“ We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 760
“ A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. ”
- Thomas Somerville- Copy
- 418
“ A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it. ”
- Colin Haycraft- Copy
- 3.6K
“ All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. ”
- Duffy Daugherty- Copy
- 1.1K
“ An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ”
- Willem de Kooning- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ”
- Oliver A. Fick- Copy
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“ Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!". ”
- Greg Anderson- Copy
- 4K
“ Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. ”
- Basil W. Maturin- Copy
- 109
“ For some, giving is only a painful and necessary act forced by societal and social pressures. But not for good givers — for them, it's a joy. ”
- Kenneth N. Dayton- Copy
- 72
“ Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
- 673
“ Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 356
“ How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ”
- Abbie Hoffman- Copy
- 1.4K
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