The compulsion of fate is bitter.

My compulsion is to create things.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

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