I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper. — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create… — Alex Lane Copy Share Image
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips… — John Virgo Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“couldn’t remember and the odd compulsion that had driven him out of his bed and into the cool August” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
