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Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
— Vikram Seth
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
— Leo Tolstoy
In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,
— J.P. Robinson
The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.
— H. L. Balcomb
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
— Caroline Baum
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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.
— James A. Baldwin
Whenever I have time and am compelled to watch anything, it's usually something I'm not in!
— Doug Hutchison
Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.
— Jean Hamilton-Fford
I love you so" I said as I slashed her throat from ear to ear.
— Shadow Mandoll
I feel compelled to clarify, simplify, and personalize truth.
— J. Grant Howard
God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.
— Dan B. Allender
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
— Jean Piaget
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
— Sam Storms
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas ...
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
People who felt compelled to fill silence with mindless chatter and who couldn't be alone with their own thoughts baffled me.
— Body Of Work
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.
— John Stuart Mill
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
I am compelled into this country.
— Patrick White
Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.
— Thomas Hardy
For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
— Gregory Of Nazianzus
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
— Piet Mondrian
Since I had never been so sexually attracted to a woman before, I was suddenly compelled to examine her ears.
— Graeme Simsion
We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm freedom and dignity
— Edward O. Wilson
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
— Baruch Spinoza
People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.
— David Roberts
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
— Oscar Wilde
Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.
— Israelmore Ayivor
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
— Euripides
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
— Darin Strauss
Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.
— Jen Lilley
To be completely free, compelled by none to do as they wished
— John Harrison
I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.
— Stewart Rahr
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
— Germaine Greer
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled to seek out God's unbreakable promises.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I can only tell you that I've done this thing, and was compelled, somehow, to do so.
— Jasper Siegel Seneschal
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.
— Jennifer Finney Boylan
In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.
— Leo Tolstoy
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
— Craig Groeschel
Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.
— Sam Altman
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
— Adam Hamilton
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
— Matthew Henry
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.
— Margaret Wertheim
Humanity is collectively compelled to take the path of spirit to its inevitable conclusion.
— Simon Boylan
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.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.
— Don DeLillo
Because we are compelled to make stories, we are often compelled to take incomplete stories and run with them.
— Brene Brown
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
— Victoria Woodhull
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
— Seth Klarman
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
— Stephen Stills
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
— William Feather
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
— Bertrand Russell
If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.
— Mark Helprin
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.
— Joseph Sugarman
The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.
— Brennan Manning
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
— Charlaine Harris
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
— Anthony Trollope
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.
— Frank Herbert
Compelled to help arm the troops fighting to preserve his enslavement.
— Douglas A. Blackmon
Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves.
— John Banville
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
— Macklemore
Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.
— Fennel Hudson
Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.
— Why The Lucky Stiff
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
— Marco Beltrami
When we truly love ourselves and love life, we are compelled to deeply explore ourselves and life's possibilities.
— Bryant McGill
Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means - even criminal - to force the victory of their cause.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
— Seneca The Younger
Hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow - and
— David Foster Wallace
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.
— Toni Morrison
If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
— Tamsin Greig
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
No one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments),
— Immanuel Kant
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
— Lady Starlight
