Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an… — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a… — Brenda Shoshanna 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
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
