How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Stress-relieving impulses like these had driven most of his actions during the previous year. His intervention on behalf of his patients was… — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however… — Thomas Burnett Swann Copy Share Image
I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
“I’ve had this feeling ever since I’ve graduated, this kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time, you… — Benjamin Braddock Copy Share Image
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
“Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon compulsion; they regard it as intolerable drudgery. Others love the work: they hover… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Emma felt a compulsion to run her hands through it. To step into his arms and never leave. Desire shot to her… — Amanda Clark Copy Share Image
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“No compulsion is there in religion. Rectitude has become clear from error. (Q2:256) We can dub this the ‘no compulsion’ verse. It… — Michael Alan Cook Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
