“But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg 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
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that… — Eknath Easwaran 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… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard… — Wole Soyinka 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
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely,… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in… — Plato Copy Share Image
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch. — Hisaye Yamamoto 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 are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher 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
