Impelled Quotes

65 quotes by 63 authors

Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield… — LiliÊ»uokalani
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us… — Mitsuo Fuchida
It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there… — Angela Davis
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. — Dorothy Parker
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it. — Baron de Montesquieu
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization. — Man Ray
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions. — Jerome Bruner
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions. — Howard Zinn
If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they… — John Stott
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities,… — Jonas Salk
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. — Wassily Kandinsky
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other… — Ivan Pavlov
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like… — Kenny Smith
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel… — William Ralph Inge
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may… — Walter Benjamin
If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this… — Woody Allen
It is our business to go as we are impelled. — D. H. Lawrence
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to… — Richard Dawkins
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was… — Lou Reed
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey

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