Forced

Famous quotes containing the word forced:

“With all of my power of living
I am forced to lie on the floor.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
The city to the soldier’s rage resigned;
Successless wars, and poverty behind;
Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)