I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips… — John Virgo Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave… — Walter Benjamin 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
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads,… — Ron Brackin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible. — Geneen Roth 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
