Compels Quotes

102 quotes by 91 authors

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the… — Elihu Root
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox
Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is… — Hale Irwin
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. — Pierre Laval
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. — Dante Alighieri
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the… — Ihab Hassan
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. — Criss Jami
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to… — Frank Gehry
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that… — Charles Caleb Colton
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. — Margaret Mead
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or… — Anais Nin
It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. — Sonia Sotomayor
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. — Charles Stanley
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,… — E E Cummings
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for… — Barry Lopez
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing… — Carl Jung
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. â€¦ You are… — Daniel Quinn

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