Quotes of Compel - somelinesforyou

“ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J. Peter. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ”

- Mary Pettibone Poole

“ Leaders don't force people to follow — they invite them on a journey. ”

- Charles S. Lauer

“ Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups. ”

- Mike DeWine

“ Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. ”

- George Washington

“ Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Ideas are, in truth, force. ”

- Henry James

“ In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand. ”

- Anne Ford

“ And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. ”

- Bible

“ The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. - King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Unless we rely on God's power within us, we will yield to the pressures around us. ”

- Unknown

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. ”

- John Milton

“ Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you. ”

- Unknown

“ We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. ”

- Douglas Hyde

“ Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ”

- Unknown

“ Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ Don't fight forces, use them. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ The car bomb is the poor man's air force. ”

- Mike Davis

“ There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'. ”

- David Schwimmer

“ Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that. ”

- Clarence Thomas

“ To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had. ”

- Susan L. Lenzkes

“ She started laughing at me. She said lobbyists have whole careers and never pass anything and, do you know how hard it is to get something like this done? That's when I started feeling the pressure. ”

- Andrea Newman

“ You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. ”

- James Wolfe
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