Quotes of: Compels Keyword

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Arthur Goldberg

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

Anthony Lane

if due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.

Anonymous

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Andrew Vachss

The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.

Todd Stocker

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

Vince McMahon

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Christian Lous Lange

Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion. Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambitious stimuli as threatening, leading to more fear...

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

A Familiar Rain

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

Guardian

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Gazelle

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Bruce Barton

I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at that truth, it connects with people on a particular level that I think makes your art more viable.

Sarah Jones

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The Insulted and Humiliated

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

If I Stay

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

When you Dream, let your Dream be compelling enough to pull you towards its realization

Your Dreams Will Not Die

Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

Hale Irwin