It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us…

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

— Benjamin Franklin

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

— Dante Alighieri

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to…

— Charles Dickens

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

— Lynda Barry

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

— Edgar Mitchell

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching…

— Ron Howard

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,…

— Jess Walter

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…

— Jacques Ellul

“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach