We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises 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
“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear… — Francis Quarles 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
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
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
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
“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
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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
“It is a compulsion, a spell we are all experiencing, the need to see justice done and someone put to death.” — John Ellsworth Copy Share Image
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is your compulsion. Even Knowing this: that anyone can shatter your confidence when you have to rely on someone — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to… — Isabel Paterson 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
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
