Compels Quotes

102 quotes by 91 authors

Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtnâ€™t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink… — Catherynne M. Valente
But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it… — J.A. Redmerski
Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I… — J.A. Redmerski
An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's the connection.The exhilarating… — Katy Evans
I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians… — Peter Singer
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want… — John Taylor Gatto
History is what the evidence compels us to believe. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
A vivid image compels the whole body to follow. — Aristotle
I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new. — The Edge
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health. — Linus Pauling
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims… — F. Sionil Jose
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us… — Sue Monk Kidd
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces… — David Josiah Brewer
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore… — Lactantius
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world… — Plato
An ambitious person is one with a mental condition which compels him to work himself to death in order to live. — Vikrant Parsai
I am the kind of person who is calm and doesn't speak much unless situation compels. Otherwise I'm more of an observer and listener than… — Ennuied Imp
The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all… — Markesa Yeager

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