“This is why I am so reticent about our relationship--because on some basic, fundamental level, I recognize within me a deep-seated compulsion… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he… — Henry Adams 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
“...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled… — John Geddes 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 premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto 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
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike 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
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Stress-relieving impulses like these had driven most of his actions during the previous year. His intervention on behalf of his patients was… — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee 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
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
When the heart Is breaks Than heart Do Not Agree To living / ccording to fate still live is a compulsion, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to do anything I have to do, even if I want to do it. Compulsion takes the fun out… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. — Carolyn Heilbrun 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
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. — Francois Fenelon 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
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
“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
“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.” — 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
“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
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson 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
“Tis only to consult our own hearts to be convinced that nations like individuals revolt at the idea of being guided by… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
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