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It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.
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.
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.
I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
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...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.