Compelled Quotes
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.
I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.
When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease
Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.
When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.
Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.
If you think you can't make time to invest into your life at once now, you will be compelled to make time to count your regrets one by one later. By all means, you'll make time... So, make it now!
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
