Coerced Synonym Quotes & Sayings

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were. — Peter Scott

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter ... — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune. — Robert Vaughn

If she loves you back, no woman is going to complain about the hour if a man calls her to proclaim his undying love. — Linda Kage

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve! — Avijeet Das

Christianity has a basic content, and that content matters. — David F. Watson

Though her body fit with his like a puzzle piece, his mind was an ever-shifting riddle she felt she could study her whole life and never fully solve. She spent the most time touching him, caressing him, massaging the secrets from his shoulders and embarrassments from his lower back. — Thomm Quackenbush

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis. — Christopher Hitchens

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace. — John Piper

I glared at him. I may not die now ... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old. — Stephenie Meyer

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. — Daisy Fuentes

I tried to turn my mind off. Shut down the thoughts that were with me every second. Everything in me ached to be with him. It was worse than an obsession. It was a need. — Dan Skinner

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. — Sarah Orne Jewett