Compelled Quotes

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.