Compulsion Quotes

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. - Julie Burchill

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? - Charles Dickens

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. - Lionel K. Murphy

When I finally realized how it has affected my life, I felt like smashing it, throwing it out the window. Now my compulsion is to try and understand what I've done to myself and my family. - Dan Moore

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals. - Adolf Hitler

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable. - Donald Rumsfeld

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. - Alfred Hitchcock

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. - Chauncey Wright

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion. - William Shakespeare

We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else. - Dave Navarro