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Quotes About Forced

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
~ Peter Kreeft
This can't be normal death, he said to himself. This is unnatural; the regular momentum of dissolution has been replaced by another factor imposed upon it, a pressure arbitrary and forced.
~ Philip K. Dick
It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
~ David Sedaris
And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!
~ Unknown
I am now forced to admit that anxiety is my true condition, occasionally intruded on by work, pleasure, melancholy or despair.
~ Cyril Connolly
Kashmiri Pandits are the worst victim of intolerance who were forced to leave their houses, I saw their camps and am appalled to see the conditions they are forced to live in.
~ Raza Murad
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.
~ Unknown
Chasing CEU out of Hungary marked the start of a new era for Orbán, said Liviu Matei, CEU's provost. "A line has been crossed. People are being forced out of the country. This is not restriction any more, this is repression. In Hungary, the reign of repression has been started."
~ Unknown
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The immigrant is the one who wants to come, unlike the refugee, who is forced to come.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
After love, was sadness not the most common noun in our lyrical repertoire? Did we salivate for sadness, or had we on learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Well, that's the question, isn't it. I told her if anything ever happens to Molly again I'm going to write a book about how I was forced to run away because my mother was a dog abuser and I'm going to self-publish it and go on a national book tour. That gave her something to think about.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.
~ Stuart Appleby
en el alma, ningún conocimiento forzado es perdurable." (Platón, República).
~ Plato
power past the Hummer and regain the roadway, we were forced counterclockwise. When
~ Dean Koontz
You were kidnapped not? I was kidnapped. You were forced not into marriage? I was forced into marriage. You want not an annulment? I want not an annulment.
~ Deeanne Gist
she was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life?" Joella
~ Dennis Lehane
If you put pressure on your kids to book every audition, they won't enjoy it anymore, and they won't book it, either. Also, if they don't want to go to an audition, they shouldn't be forced to go. They have to want to do it.
~ Emma Kenney
No employee should be forced to pay any union in order to keep their job.
~ Chris Sununu
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within that urged me to say yes to acting.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
All revolutions have been carried through by the spontaneous action of the people; if occasionally governments have responded to the initiative of the people it was only because they were forced or constrained to do so. Almost always they blocked, repressed, struck.
~ Unknown
If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and sell bait.
~ Colin Cowherd
Vermont will continue to uphold the laws of our State and nation, but we will not be forced to take any action that we believe violates Constitutional rights, or infringes upon the rights of Vermont as a sovereign state.
~ Phil Scott