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Quotes About Compel

You cannot compel love, he said finally, nor summon it at will. Still less, he added ruefully, can you dismiss it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Talk to her; persuade her to
~ Diana Gabaldon
We are what we choose. And we choose whatever our deepest passion compels us to be and to do. To understand the truth of this simple principle, we must examine choice's power to shape our character.
~ Dan B. Allender
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
~ Aristotle
we are going to have to use words that pique our customers' curiosity.
~ Donald Miller
He was the first to see that Christ's ministers must do the work of fishermen. They must not wait for souls to come to them, but must go after souls, and "compel them to come in.
~ J.C. Ryle
Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.
~ Madeline Hunter
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.
~ Maria McCann
Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.
~ Alex Rosa, Tryst
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
~ Mario Puzo
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
~ Marlon Brando
Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem to yield scientific results.
~ Max Weber
television host directing the president to do whatever might most compel a television audience—took the game a big step further.
~ Michael Wolff
Catch those Stupids who wear masks and compel others also to wear Covid masks and throw them out from the society because their stupidity is one of the biggest threats to the humanity.
~ Unknown
Change does not seek admirers, but it forces everyone to admire it.
~ Unknown
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes