Top 556 Forcing Quotes & Sayings

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

It seems like everybody is forcing me to run for president.

Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to happen. We have what we consider to be, anyway, a respect for our form of government, a constitutional republic. We believe in it. We want legitimate mandates. We win an election, we want it to be because the genuine majority of people who share our beliefs. We don't think we accomplish anything by forcing something on people. But that's not the way the left looks at this at all. They can only get what they want by forcing it on people.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.

Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.

I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the baby-boomers in America were forcing '60s music and Motown down our throats, now people of my generation are forcing Tears For Fears and old Hip Hop upon others.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

I think I'm pretty good at pressuring the ball, forcing turnovers.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

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

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations - I'm not usually playing the person in reaction.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.