Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's…

— David Hedison

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The…

— Philippe Petit

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be…

— Charles Albert Gobat

It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to…

— Usher

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

— C. S. Lewis

I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled…

— Gemma Cairney

“The more helpless she was, the more he would feel compelled to protect her.”

— Anonymous

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly…

— Lucretius

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God…

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Lynda Barry

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the…

— Pope Gregory I

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it…

— Linda Stone

I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to…

— Michael Eric Dyson