Compelled Quotes

353 quotes by 309 authors

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days. — W.C. Fields
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are… — Mabel Collins
There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you… — Wayne Dyer
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled… — Johannes Kepler
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality… — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until… — William Banting
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the… — Terry Rossio
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of… — Joseph Campbell
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose… — Philip French
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses… — Michelangelo

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