It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst. — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
“We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!” — Marilynn Dawson Copy Share Image
People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it. — David Roberts Copy Share Image
By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his… — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
Arms are instruments of ill omen… When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make… — Richard Garriott Copy Share Image