Compelled Quotes

353 quotes by 309 authors

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to… — Robert E. Lee
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by… — Isaac Newton
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a… — Peter Forsyth
Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled… — John Harvey Kellogg
Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define… — Frank Schaeffer
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesnâ€™t respect them. — Pat Condell
My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful… — Richard Garriott
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy… — Albert Schweitzer
If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling. — Beth Moore
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck
I saw the suffering and I let myself feel itâ€¦ I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from… — Helen Prejean
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them. — Robert Schumann
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published… — Anne Lamott
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are… — Daniel Pinchbeck
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. — James A. Baldwin
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to… — Wendell Berry
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather… — Paul Bailey
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy

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