Compulsive Quotes

112 quotes by 101 authors

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. — David Beckham
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion… — David Bohm
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part… — Jane Campion
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. — Kelly Clarkson
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out… — Fiona Apple
Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,… — Laura Harvey
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell… — Barbara Oakley
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking. — Deepika Padukone
Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. — Courtney Thorne Smith
I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous. — Robert Pattinson
I am a compulsive and concise shopper. — Zac Posen
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions… — Jonathon Porritt
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the… — Thomas Boswell
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… — Minor White
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all… — Will Durant
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… — Jacques Derrida
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives… — Peter Medawar

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