|
"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
|
|
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you." »Peter De Vries
|
|
"feeding the starving poor only increases their number." »Ben Bova
|
|
"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse." »Groucho Marx
|
|
"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper." »Tom Robbins
|
|
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will." »Ronald Reagan
|
|
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." »George Bernard Shaw
|
|
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." »E. M. Forster
|
|
"Judgment is forced upon us by experience." »Johnson
|
|
"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion." »Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
|
|
"I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced." »Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
|
|
"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary." »Antonin Artaud
|
|
"We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
|
|
"Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing." »Afghan
|
|
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." »Ernest Hemingway
|
|
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." »W.C. Fields
|
|
"Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields." »Peter Borden
|
|
"I like cooking, maybe because for me it is actually quite an aggressive and controlling activity so it fits my character quite well. Moreover there is sometimes a small element of force-feeding going on after I cook, I care nothing for people who cry out NO MORE! Yes its true cooking for me is a little like going to war. It is entered into with a total abandonment of reason and a lack of safety of everyone around!" »Paul. F. Meekin
|
|
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
|
|
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
|
|
"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else." »H. L. Mencken
|
|
"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
|
|
"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else." »H.L. Mencken
|
|
"Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril." »Harry S Truman
|
|
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." »James Arthur Baldwin
|
|
"You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain." »Jeff Melvoin
|
|
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'." »Phillip Lopate
|
|
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
|
|
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
