Forced Quotes

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.