“But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch. — Hisaye Yamamoto 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
I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority),… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is… — Aristotle 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
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting. — George Carlin 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
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“...there are many who want it but for whom the train of compulsion doesn't seem to stop. They never get that moment,… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
