Compelled Quotes

353 quotes by 309 authors

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of… — Vaclav Havel
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives… — Rikki Ducornet
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. — Daniel Day-Lewis
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could… — Paul Newman
I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress. — Mariska Hargitay
I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us… — Werner Bischof
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way,… — David Knopfler
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer. — Toni Morrison
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say… — Charles Tupper
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are… — Dalai Lama
Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices… — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall… — Alvin Toffler
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy… — Thomas Jefferson
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to… — George Washington
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be… — Thomas Paine
Religious doctrines â€¦ are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to… — Sigmund Freud
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is… — Robinson Jeffers

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