Compulsion Quotes

264 quotes by 204 authors

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion. — Publilius Syrus
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. — Epictetus
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to… — Pete Seeger
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the… — Joyce Carol Oates
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.… — Jonathan Raban
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more… — Aleksa Palladino
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the… — Plato
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do… — Julie Burchill
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in… — Symeon the New Theologian
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the… — William Blake
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives… — Jay Chiat
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when… — Monica Ali
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and… — Amanda Hocking
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all… — Zola Jesus
Compulsion is the death of friendship. — Patrick O'Brian
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find… — Dale Rex Coman
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever… — Tennessee Williams
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford

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