93 Compelled Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?' Pippa Middleton

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My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter. Pud Galvin

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I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article in 'New York Magazine' about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn't help but be compelled. R. J. Cutler

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I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Richard Flanagan

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If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it? Rudolf Steiner

I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it. Susanna Fogel

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If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. Tamsin Greig

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Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. Thich Nhat Hanh

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You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. Will Self

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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. William Feather

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No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs. Willis Polk

Age Beauty Take Compelled

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East. Zbigniew Brzezinski

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You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media. Hillary Clinton

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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal. Cal Ripken, Jr.

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