It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I… — Rachel McAdams 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
I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me… — Aleksa Palladino 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
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper. — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
