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Quotes About Forcing

I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.
~ Olivia Culpo
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
~ Harry Browne
For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
~ Felicia Day
I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
~ Mickey Sumner
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
~ Marco Rubio
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
~ Dean Gordon Brown
Saintliness means turning pain to good account. It means forcing the devil to be God.
~ Jean Genet
Because when the crash comes, the government needs to nationalize the banks. No more bailing them out and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. You
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I was forcing him to think. He wasn't used to having to do anything that complex.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.
~ Joe Queenan
I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others. -Bunny
~ E.W. Hornung
You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.
~ Chris Smalling
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.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The size of the greenhouse forcing is estimated, at this point, to be 2.5 w/m2. A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths of a watt of energy, mostly in the form of heat, so that, in effect (as Sophie supposedly explained to Connor), we have covered the earth with tiny bulbs, six for every square meter. These bulbs are burning twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, year in and year out.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
You have to go through your reads and you have to make smart decisions because if you start forcing it in to double coverage you will get into bad habits and that is when bad plays happen.
~ Matt Cassel
Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.
~ Anthony Trollope
To put God to the question in any other way than by saying, What wilt thou have me to do? is an attempt to compel God to declare himself, or to hasten his work. This probably was the sin of Judas. It is presumption of a kind similar to the making of a stone into bread. It is, as it were, either a forcing of God to act where he has created no need for action, or the making of a case wherein he shall seem to have forfeited his word if he does not act.
~ George MacDonald
Hank and I were accused of abusing our authority by allegedly forcing Bank of America to go through with the deal.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
The government hiring workers would require paying money for doctors – and the left argues that doctors already make too much money. And the left won't argue openly for what they would prefer: forcing people to practice medicine for patients deemed worthy by the government
~ Ben Shapiro
He wanted to think that he was paralyzed. He knew that he was violently alive, that he was forcing the stupor into his muscles and into his mind, because he wished to escape the responsibility of consciousness.
~ Ayn Rand
Allowing success is the opposite of forcing success.
~ Steve Chandler
I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I'm very much opposed to discrimination.
~ Rick Scott
And it is a public health issue, forcing sick individuals into public spaces where they risk spreading disease.
~ Bernie Sanders
Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host.
~ Steve G. Steinberg