Quotes about Compulsion

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When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trou — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves include — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involun — Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Arminius, appealing to Lactantius, held that: 'To recommend faith to others, we must make it the subject of persuasion, — Gerald O. McCulloh, Man's Faith and Freedom: The Theological Influence of Jacobus Arminius
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. — Avakruth
...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irr — Erckmann-Chatrian, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusiv — David L. Calof, The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattra — Michael Bassey Johnson
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they w — Herodotus, The Histories
He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had — Sōseki Natsume, And Then
I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion. — Amit Kalantri
When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are goi — Erik Pevernagie
Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest i — Jazz Feylynn
But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek w — William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives. — Michael Bassey Johnson
The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his co — Harold Edmund Stearns, Liberalism in America: Its Origin, Its Temporary Collapse, Its Future
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 compulsio — John Smith
You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command. — Travis Luedke