In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of… — Ishmael Butler 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
“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes. I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power… — Erckmann-Chatrian Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare 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
“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
I understand the pain of others. this is attributed to compulsion. otherwise happiness would have made me arrogant — Mak_786 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
“Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with… — 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
“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
“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.” — Martina Boone 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
![“The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament,"…” quote by Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/dalai-lama-89_antidote_the-antidote-to-hatred-in-the-heart-the_1440504.jpg)
![“[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.” quote by Theodore J. Forstmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d01/theodore-j-forstmann-51407_believe_statists-believe-that-government-should_778901.png)
