“– Her Design was once more to engage him, to hear him sigh, to see him languish, to feel the strenuous Pressures… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If you think you can't make time to invest into your life at once now, you will be compelled to make time… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are… — David Platt Copy Share Image
By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then,… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image