“I can only tell you that I've done this thing, and was compelled, somehow, to do so.” — Jasper Siegel Seneschal Copy Share Image
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“The more helpless she was, the more he would feel compelled to protect her.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else. — Sidney Nolan Copy Share Image
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not… — Carl von Ossietzky Copy Share Image
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded… — Werner Bischof Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet...I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious… — Anonymous 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
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . . — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
