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Definition of Forced
Forced

of Force

Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.

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Forced Quotations

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone

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

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus

Forced Translations

forced in German is Zwangs-, erzwungen, aufgezwungen, erzwungen
forced in Spanish is forzado
forced in Swedish is tvingade


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