Compulsion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
-- Chauncey Wright -
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
-- Duke Ellington -
The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
-- Edna Ferber -
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.
-- Hisaye Yamamoto -
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
-- Jane Porter -
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
-- Plato -
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
-- Samuel Gompers -
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
-- Sylvia Nasar -
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
-- Walter Gropius -
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
-- Walter Jon Williams -
I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
-- Ti West
