Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
People destroy relationships because they force unnecessary issues instead of letting it grow naturally and organically. Once somebody feels trapped or forced into something it's only a matter of time before they run.
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
