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
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
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. — Rick Riordan 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
What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be… — Ryan Adams 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
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write,… — Yukio Mishima 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
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
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
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're… — Anonymous 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
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael 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
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
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 am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin 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
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
