Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“It is just as useless to think constantly out of compulsion as it is to refuse to put down a hammer that… — Ryan Kurczak Copy Share Image
“Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy… — Liane Moriarty 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 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
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 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
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
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however… — Thomas Burnett Swann Copy Share Image
“I’ve had this feeling ever since I’ve graduated, this kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time, you… — Benjamin Braddock Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell 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
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the… — James Thurber 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
