93 Compelled Quotes for You to Enjoy

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. Christopher Hitchens

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We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

People Result Nothing Second-Hand Our Guided Circumstances Ourselves Kinds Tendencies Clear Environment New Accept Pristine Been Discovered Influences Either Us Nothing New Original Lived Compelled

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. Isaac Newton

Power Other Frame Sun System About Could Divine Never Put Well Without Am Motion Intelligent May Ascribe Them Agent Planets Reasons Therefore Compelled Gravity

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing. Deepak Chopra

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. James A. Garfield

Best Man Poverty Young Nine Out Tossed Ten Uncomfortable Overboard Sink Times Happen Young Man Swim Compelled Thing

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato

Good Nature Man Will Evil Human Nature Evils No-One He Greater Human Prefer Might Choose Less Compelled Two

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble. Ezra Taft Benson

God Humble People Will Be Humble Either Choose Compelled

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. John Muir

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field. Tom Ford

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams

Success Work Me Failure Negative Before Back Typewriter Out More Pushed Had Always Am Been Reviews Very Than Get Sends Apparent Play Compelled Night

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word. Giles Andreae

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For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. Meir Kahane

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Thucydides

Legal Men Superior First Seems More Indignation Excited Wrong Cheated Like Equal Looks Than Being Compelled Second Violent

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going. Alanis Morissette

Field About Shame Feel Continue Going Human Just Being Being Human Might Really Transparent Keep Keep Going Compelled Levels Playing Playing Field

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. Andrew Weil

Government Will Pay Earnest Must Physicians Insurance Insurance Companies Private Encourage Offer Owned Whether Turn Measures Companies Compelled Treatments

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Arthur Goldberg

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I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled. Beth Moore

Me Money Constantly Something Write Because Compelled

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions. CeeLo Green

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

Immersed Feels Am Person Gets Then Who Compelled

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