Compelled Quotes - Page 12

• An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Memories, Moon, Light

  Rikki Ducornet (2007). “Gazelle”, p.149, Anchor

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• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Past, Feels

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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Healthy, Proud, Actresses

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• I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

  Werner Bischof

  Borders, Hardship, World

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• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

  Johannes Kepler

  Time, Dirty, Feet

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• During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Water

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• I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.

  Ernst Mach

  Teacher, Science, Essentials

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical Inquiry”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Science, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

  Michael Faraday

  Hard Work, Jealous, Mean

  "The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840, Letters 525-1333".

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• We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Healing, Self Confidence

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• A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimistic

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.542, 谷月社

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• Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Feelings

  Charles Darwin (1887). “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

  Laozi

  Peace, Compassion, Men

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• 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.

  David Knopfler

  Unique, Doors, Ice

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• We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cities, Important, Needs

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• Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

  Patrick Califia

  Writing, World, Truth Is

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• In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

  Michael Kenny

  Voice, Community, Groups

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• Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

  Caroline Baum

  Political, Politics, Uniforms

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Groups

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, People, Literature

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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