#compelled

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#exactly #feel #i #myself #people

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

— Chris Hughes

#compelled #feels #gets #i #i am

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

#being #compelled #feeling #history #human

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#compelled #explore #finger #fully #life

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#condemn #divine #generosity #god #himself

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

#being #being human #compelled #continue #feel

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. ↗

— Paul Bailey

#artistic #authority #blanche #comes #compelled

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#baker #become #compelled #craft #curious