Compelled Quote by Alice Dunbar Nelson Download Open image “It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.” — Alice Dunbar Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compelled Crime Inspirational Love Punishment Wish
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots… — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the… — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl... — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled… — Gemma Cairney Copy Share Image
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to… — Usher Copy Share Image
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
