Impelled Quotes

65 quotes by 62 authors

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind… — King Edward VIII
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from… — Jerome K. Jerome
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me… — Karl Jaspers
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. — John Steinbeck
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form… — Antonin Artaud
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good… — Karen Armstrong
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions — Marcel Proust
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
But how do they get inside?" "They fly," Jace said, and indicated the upper floors of the building. [...] "We don't fly," Clary felt impelled… — Cassandra Clare
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing… — Jonathan Franzen
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this… — Haruki Murakami
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova
And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But… — Mary Oliver

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