Quotes About Compelled

Listen, I've been thinking. 8 million people. All those stories passing from mouth to ear. Would one person be compelled. One out of 8 million. A fraction of a fraction. But not nothing. Absorbing that story. Passing it on. Listen. Somewhere out there, saying to others at last. Listen. This isn't right. None of them are sure how this will work. Where they will go. How they will find their way. But it is not impossible and right now that feels like enough.

what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

You know how you shiver with fear at the idea of doing something extremely dangerous, but feel compelled to proceed? Falling for a Scorpio is just like that shudder of terrified excitement. The legendary magnetism of this sign is real. A Scorpion in love is erotically powerful, amazingly cunning, and totally dangerous. Scorpios are the stuff of romance-novel characters...

Yeah. Almost as surprising as when you nailed me with your father's car. In the interest of avoiding confrontation, I felt compelled to explain. I didn't feel obliged to do it convincingly. It was an accident. My foot slipped. That was no accident. You jumped the goddamn curb and followed me down the sidewalk.

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

Freeh knew the estrangement undermined the FBI. "The lost resources and lost time alone were monumental," he wrote. "So much that should have been straightforward became problematic in the extreme." But he felt compelled to keep a distance from the president. It deepened as the years went by. It became a danger to the United States.

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

He was stoutly opposed to the idea of marrying anyone; but if, as happens to the best of us, he ever were compelled to perform the wedding glide, he had always hoped it would be with some lady golf champion who would help him with his putting, and thus, by bringing his handicap down a notch or two, enable him to save something from the wreck, so to speak.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth

but I felt accountable and compelled to help in some way.

inclinations prompted me to.  But being one day at Hull, where

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Sometimes, we are compelled by circumstances to interact with people who are unwholesome. Some of these people are extremely pessimistic or depressive. Although they may not be particularly negative towards you, the constant emission of pessimistic or depressive energy from them can contaminate you.

She smiled with a scary energy, as if she had been told to at gunpoint.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?