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Tag Name "Compels" (84)

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You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.
Kellyanne Conway
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You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
Daniel Quinn
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius
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Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?
David Ogilvy
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Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.
Marcus Aurelius
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Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
Denis Waitley
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Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.
Ernest Holmes
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Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
Aaron Hill
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When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
Adam Rifkin
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Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
Alexander Berkman
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The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
Harriet Martineau
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it
Henri Nouwen
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Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.
Anne Graham Lotz
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The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.
Herbert Croly
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That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
Archibald MacLeish
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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
Immanuel Kant
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When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees does gratitude for adversity do that as well?
Bonnie D. Parkin
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
Jack Kornfield
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Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C. S. Lewis
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