Quotes About Forced

To be precise, she doesn't like the way her smile photographs as forced. So smiling's out. But she doesn't think she can sustain a sober look without seeming unfriendly, so she frequently switches between two expressions—one she thinks of as Alert and the other she thinks of as Accommodating, though she's the only one who can tell the difference.

The 'Sainthood', I may say, was actually forced upon me. If anyone would like to avoid becoming holy, they should immediately read this entire story.

The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.

The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program.

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

When kids start school, families often have little choice over where they can go. Sometimes, children are forced into a failing school simply because their parents live in a certain district, and that school is the only option.

As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

If you want to make money, you tend to be forced to work on problems that are too nasty for anyone to solve for free.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

conspicuously perched in the eye of a bad party's somewhat forced-feeling storm of wit and good cheer

It is sometimes pretended that the League of Nations was an American inspiration forced and foisted upon Europe against its froward inclination. The facts are different.

The British public deserve real choices not forced, technocratic arguments about variations of the same dead end arguments.

As a farmer's son, I've always been forced to eat vegetables.

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.

If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education.

I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn't go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn't know what to do with the situation.

I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.

Street deserted because the people were forced to do so.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.