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
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
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 most twisted thing about being an artist comes when you understand you’re creating for one specific person. The painful part is… — Tarryn Fisher 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
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
“And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even… — Mark Slouka 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
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so.… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first… — Anuj Copy Share Image
“I’m suffering from “Hyper-analytical Social Media Posting Disorder”, characterized by a compulsion to edit 5 minutes after posting a comment, augmented by… — Andrew Neff Copy Share Image
“I can’t stop picking at them. Even when it makes me bleed. I know I need to stop, but it’s almost a… — Shira Glassman Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson 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
I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build… — William Moulton Marston 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
Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning… — Leah Cypess Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm 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
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for"… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
