Compulsion Quotes

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.