Compelled Quotes - Page 7

• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.

  Ryan Adams

  Jobs, Opportunity, Artist

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Doors, History, Scene

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• It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Childhood, Green, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Fall, Men, Race

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “The Attribute to God”, p.78, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Thinking, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Silence, May, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.191, Hackett Publishing

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• We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

  George Santayana

  Running, Holiday, Order

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• Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

  Terry Goodkind

  Mean, Choices, Charity

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The Pillars Of Creation”, p.253, Head of Zeus

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• I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

  Paul Giamatti

  People, Want, Way

  "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.

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• He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

  Pope Gregory I

  Speak, Position, Highest

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• Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, May, Forget

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations”

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• I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

  Chris Hughes

  Feels, Persons

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• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  Max Levchin

  Games, People, Challenges

  "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Queens, Kings, Real

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Liberty, Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.206, Penguin

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• The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.

  Lysander Spooner

  War, Men, Support

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

  Robert Adams

  Believe, Vocabulary, Sight

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• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Long, Serious

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.441, Delphi Classics

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• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Solitude, Heat

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1437, e-artnow

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• I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  Adam Hamilton

  Evil, Feelings, Use

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, Tools, Faces

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, "Conversations in Port Townsend," (1983), 1987.

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• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  David Dark

  People, Records, May

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