“ALWAYS likes to do things out of conviction rather than compulsion...” — Yalini Anamica Copy Share Image
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of myself. I don't understand this compulsion of mine to seek out the street and the night when it does… — Aura Estrada Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth.… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads,… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one,"… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“There’s one more symptom we need to look at before looking at how trauma actually gets into the body and mind and… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image