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Compulsion Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- 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…
- Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching…
More Compulsion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
- Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI
- Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a… — Julie Burchill
- My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese
- If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle
- The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he… — Albert Schweitzer
- Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks… — Bernard Iddings Bell