Quotes About Compulsion

elle était terriblement jalouse. Elle savait que c'était absurde, mais elle n'arrivait pas à se maîtriser, à avoir un comportement rationnel.

if no compulsion was allowed, then obviously such social coherence as did exist had to be created through reasoned debate, persuasive arguments and the establishment of social consensus.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that's damned me more than once. But I just can't hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Film lovers are sick people.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, " Petra said.