Compelled Quotes

353 quotes by 309 authors

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments… — Andrew Weil
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the… — Tennessee Williams
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing… — William Butler Yeats
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can… — Karl Marx
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let… — Jon Krakauer
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. — Ron Paul
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating… — Jeffrey Eugenides
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of… — Thomas Jefferson
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. — Terry Goodkind
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge… — George Santayana
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our… — John Stuart Mill
Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the… — Janet Evanovich
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven… — Arthur W. Pink
It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"… — Cassandra Clare
If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam… — Joseph Goebbels

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