It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an… — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?" "Not particularly. You have that effect on people.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
When the heart Is breaks Than heart Do Not Agree To living / ccording to fate still live is a compulsion, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it… — Joseph Rotblat 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
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong to be possessive but it is not good to have obsession for something.Obsession is repetitive thoughts which resembles… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
“He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
“...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“This is why I am so reticent about our relationship--because on some basic, fundamental level, I recognize within me a deep-seated compulsion… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Copy Share Image
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion. — Plato Copy Share Image
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“It’s not the sweet, tender kind of love I always dreamed of, but it’s love. Dark, twisted, and obsessive, it’s both a… — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession,… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
