Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

Ezra Taft Benson

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

John C. Calhoun

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.

We have an immoral government operating illegally. I feel morally compelled to act.

We're a law enforcement agency. If we're compelled by the courts to do something, we're going to follow the law.

Judge, if I looked only at what you've said and written in the past, I'd feel compelled to vote no.

Mitch Daniels

I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Kathryn Harrison

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

We are not compelled to lose that element of quality in favor of speed.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

Jonas Mekas

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

Margaret Fuller

I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. I didn't really think about whether she would receive my message or not.

Janet Reno

If we're compelled to enforce our order, we intend to do so in a reasoned, measured way,

Rod Serling

I grew up in a single family household and when you decide to go to the wall on your first project you really want to go with material that you're passionate about and I think that is one of the reasons I felt so compelled to make this film.

We only responded with what we were legally compelled to provide and nothing more. We had a vigorous process in place to make sure that only required material was provided.

Buzz Aldrin

As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,

They loved his personality and felt compelled to help him.

They just keep thinking we'll go away, but once you start on this track, you kind of feel compelled to finish it. We just want a search for the truth.

Marissa Moss

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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.

We have funds sufficient for the next couple of weeks but in order to continue this operation, we need funds immediately as all reserves are being used and if funds are not generated, we would be compelled to scale-down our activities.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Janet Reno

that she is not compelled to force Juan Miguel Gonzalez to keep his son in the U.S. and indicated that she would do nothing to stop him from going home with his son to Cuba.

William Butler Yeats

This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

Dana Rohrabacher

If he is found guilty of fraud I will seriously think of giving that option money back to some of the people who were defrauded. But if he was only someone who was flamboyant and incompetent I will not feel compelled to take a strong look at giving back the money.

I don't think any human being can listen to the testimony of the people who have fled, and see the savagery that is going on there and not feel compelled to do something.

Jean Piaget

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

The Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland isn't possible if Jews are outnumbered or feel compelled to forgo the democratic traditions that are Israel's strength.

Ted Thompson

We're going through our options, and we don't feel compelled to fill the spot right away.

Glenn Miller

There's not enough data to suggest there's a problem with PAH in Lake Tahoe except with some of the marinas, ... We didn't see anything that compelled us to recommend management of boating at Tahoe solely because of PAH.