#forceful

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#alone #beginning #forcefully #hearts #letters

What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still do what he says in his Word. ↗

— Wes Moore

#quotes #faith

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#dissent #especially #ever #forceful #including

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#celebrities #certain #forceful #had #heard

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#eventually #every #forceful #high #how

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery. ↗

— David Duchovny

#forceful #get #i #information #kind

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate. ↗

— Karen Hughes

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