Compelled Quotes

353 quotes by 309 authors

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working… — Kathryn Stockett
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter wonâ€™t… — Rick Riordan
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. — Gloria Steinem
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually… — Mark Nepo
I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I… — Naguib Mahfouz
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, — P.G. Wodehouse
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily… — Thomas Mann
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. Itâ€™s the one that… — Napoleon Hill
I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it. — James Patterson
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Anne Rice
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the… — Charles Eisenstein
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly… — Vincent Van Gogh
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being… — Hayao Miyazaki
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or… — Eve Ensler
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. — Albert Einstein
Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them.… — Julia Cameron
To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human… — Alexander Hamilton
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way… — Mark Jenkins
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was… — Ernst Mach

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