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Letter "F" » forced
«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred, breed, cheerfulness, content, diligence, forced, hundred, idle, idled, idling, self control, temperance, virtues, work force
«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
all over, bread, burden, callous, cruel, dependency, forced, forlorn, humiliation, humiliations, piteous, scarred, Speeches, stabbing, stabs, stairs, steep, steeped, steeps, unwelcome
«If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.»
Author: John Dos Passos
(Correspondent, Novelist)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
contemplation, forced, of their own, special, work force, writers
«A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it»
«Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceives, dignity, forced, freely, Human dignity, morality, precisely
«Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| About:
Criticism,
Dreams,
Encouragement,
Love,
Motivation
| Keywords:
criticize, criticizes, encourage, flatter, flat out, forced, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, ignore, may not
«Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
blackguard, blackguards, dilemma, dilemmas, forced, gentleman, placed, reply, There exists
«Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
conclusions, forced, infallible, in conclusion, in force, may, may not, nearer, near in, right, while
«An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
drunk, drunker, drunks, fools, forced, intelligent, spend
«If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.»
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