The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan 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
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
Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change,… — Patricia McConnell 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
In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast… — Charles Spurgeon 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
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills -… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Coming out of graduation, I didn't immediately know what direction I wanted to do so I decided to just stay as an… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds… — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“You must be compelled by an inner force to read books, listen to music, and view films which serve only to send… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession… — Titian Copy Share Image
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
