Quotes About Compulsion

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

The Imp of the Perverse.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.

In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned!

Y qué es un apego? Es un estado emocional de vinculación compulsiva a una cosa o persona determinada, originado por la creencia de que sin esa cosa o persona

Still," he says, "certain things compel people. Pearls, for example, and sinistral shells, shells with a left-handed opening. Even the best scientists feel the urge now and then to put something in a pocket. That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It

And, at the same time, we began to build schools that are all inside and no outside, all stone and no garden, all power and no humility, all hulking system and no small child, all gears and no flowers, all compulsion and no promise.

I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

I was a functional addict.

He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.

Jessica wondered what compulsion had brought her to uncover those two things first—the head and the painting. She knew there was something symbolic in the action.