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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Force'

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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen, American Politician (1896-1969)
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds, -
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds, -
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist (1821-1881)
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.
Lord Alfred Douglas, British Poet (1870-1945)
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
Michael Douglas, American Actor (1944-  )
When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
Jerry Doyle, American Actor (1956-  )
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist (1802-1870)
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist (1940-  )
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman, American Author (1883-1969)
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Lawyer (1947-  )
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist (1850-1909)
There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.
Bulent Ecevit, Politician (1925-  )
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President (1890-1969)
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President (1890-1969)
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Henry Ellis, British Psychologist (1859-  )
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
Daniel Ellsberg, American Celebrity (1931-  )
 
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