Compelled Quotes

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.