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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will… — Robert A. Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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
Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a… — Brenda Shoshanna 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
“couldn’t remember and the odd compulsion that had driven him out of his bed and into the cool August” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran 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
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 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
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
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
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
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if… — Avakruth 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
