True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. — Dorothy Day 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
I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else. — Sidney Nolan 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
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He only knew that for now, he was compelled. He had to keep moving. Keep hunting. You’re operational, he thought. No more… — Andrew Warren Copy Share Image
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment. — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something. — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them.… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding 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
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
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins 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
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 believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
![“[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/noam-chomsky-42_able_barack-obama-was-reaching-a-point-with-s_1066059.jpg)
![“It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.” quote by Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17b/dalai-lama-89_accepting_it-is-in-everybody-s-interest-to-seek-th_321168.jpg)
![“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing…” quote by Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/robert-adams-4362_accounts_the-word-beauty-is-unavoidable-it-accoun_2254677.png)
