“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be. — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.” — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure. — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is the big man / one wants to understand his compulsion — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I’m suffering from “Hyper-analytical Social Media Posting Disorder”, characterized by a compulsion to edit 5 minutes after posting a comment, augmented by… — Andrew Neff Copy Share Image
“I can’t stop picking at them. Even when it makes me bleed. I know I need to stop, but it’s almost a… — Shira Glassman Copy Share Image
If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so.… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“God rewards the soul that focuses on Him with attention and love, and God rewards that soul by exercising a rigorous compulsion… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
