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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about feelings, democracy

How would you like to be forced all the days of your life...

How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast?

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about day, life

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of...

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about attack, circumstances

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Quote by Michael Chabon

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people...

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Quote by Boy George about being, things, people

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to...

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about time, man

My dad's family was from Nuremberg, and his father had a mail order textile business. He was in Germany when it was getting pretty lousy and he was forced to sell his business to some Nazi.

Quote by Billy Joel about affair, commerce, family, order

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about help, things, time, life

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy...

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

Quote by Franz Kafka about action, state, thinking, man

If you lose a merc through death or end of contract, you'll be in the middle of nowhere and be forced to leave behind his/her heavy gear: This is most commonly your heavy weapons expert who carried a few LAWs and your mortar.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about death, end

Life stinks then you have a heart attack, get paraplegic...

Life stinks then you have a heart attack, get paraplegic and find yourself forced to say that it wasn't that bad after all.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about attack, bad luck, heart, bad, life

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the...

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

Quote by John Dos Passos about writers, hell

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the...

Quote by Ron Paul about home, americans, war

I think there just comes a point where you are just too...

I think there just comes a point where you are just too sick to perform and you should not be forced to do that.

Quote by Minnie Pearl

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, ...

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Quote by Thomas Browne about people, city, truth, man

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Quote by John Updike about truth, privacy, woman, man

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Quote by Giuseppe Garibaldi about homeland, hunger, food, country, heart, death

The most cruel revenge is when your enemy is forced to...

The most cruel revenge is when your enemy is forced to recognize that you are good and he is bad.

Quote by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu about revenge, enemies, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

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