Compelled Quotations

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?'

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly big double-pawed tomcat who regularly left dead rabbits on the front doorstep, and 70 white mice that one or another of us had smuggled home from my father's research laboratory.

I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.

I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language.

After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

To be honest, the piece of clothing from a man's wardrobe I wear most often, to bed and around the house, is my boyfriend's underwear. I think it's infinitely unfair that women are compelled to wear underwear with a comfort factor of zero whilst men stroll around in essentially the most comfortable item of clothing ever made.

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

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.

As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.

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.

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.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

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

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

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

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.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

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.

One of the strongest parts of our case has to do with the fact that Ken Lay never sold one share of Enron stock that he was not compelled to sell.

Neither I nor David would have gone to this extent if we didn't have a sense that we were compelled to do this. It was very clear to us that this was an innocent person who was being deprived of his life and that we had a chance to remedy that.

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.

If these groups are knowingly assisting illegal immigrants, they may feel morally compelled to provide that assistance, but they certainly ought to be held legally accountable for violating the law.

I'd just like to take a moment here to say that I'm totally opposed to violence in the school system. I think that teachers are subjected to a lot of stuff that kids are... Children out there, if you feel so compelled to maim your teacher, I think that's okay, but to really get rough and snuff 'em out, that's tough.

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

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.

Given the absence of any progress, we feel compelled to make our offer available directly to your shareholders, so they can accept this opportunity to realize superior, immediate and certain value for their shares,

I am trying to win the trust of my pen pal in the US to facilitate my travel there. If it fails, I would be compelled to resort to the use of illegal credit cards to get what I want, as my colleagues do,

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne with breakfast at the crack of dawn, I felt compelled to rise to the occasion when it was offered.

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.

I am compelled to write because I have an artist's personality, it is a psychologically-determined thing, one best not explored perhaps. But I write because I must. And frequently I do not know what I am writing, and can talk of what I've written only a long time afterwards.

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about th

I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they werent aware how much it carried me through.

Hurricanes have hit downstate New York, and hurricanes will hit downstate New York again. Our very high market share numbers therefore compelled us to take appropriate, measured actions that balance the best interests of customers, shareholders, agency owners, employees and the community at large.

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

Like the builders of the second Jerusalem temple, we were compelled to build with one hand and to bear the sword, as it were, in the other.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now, ... Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now. Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

People are not feeling compelled by the price action to jump in. Every day they wait the yields have gone up.

It is disappointing and in such circumstances one is compelled to think about leaving the game altogether.

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

It is clear that if the Palestinians do not begin to take vigorous action against terrorism, Israel will be compelled to step up military activity that is designed to protect the lives of Israeli citizens.

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.

Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.'

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

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

Winning a campaign means having beliefs, things that voters stand for, so people are compelled to come out and vote for you on Election Day.

Members of our community feel so compelled by their disappointment they want to share it with others.

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

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

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.

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.

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 want it to be clarified to us why this family, who has been guarding this boy, is being compelled to betray his trust and hand him over on a silver platter.

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

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.

We are pleased to offer consumers this technology, but consumers should make the choice rather than have it made for them. If they don't have children or pets and they don't feel they need it, they shouldn't be compelled to pay for it.

. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

At this point, we don't feel compelled to take a position but I think the board definitely wants to take a position and we didn't call for a vote yesterday, we just tabled it.

Competitive pressure means carmakers are compelled to add features, lower prices, and push technology. Consumers get the benefit.

Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

I used the First Amendment to protect sources and to protect some journalists, and I felt very strongly about that, ... It was a serious criminal investigation, and I felt compelled to protect the sources of information and the journalists reporting the information.

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.

The governor remains disappointed in the court actions that compelled the state's involvement.

When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'

Very often we see traffickers taking advantage of people's desperate situation, moving into a situation where families can be persuaded or compelled to part with their children.

The original request was far from pocket change. And yet, we apparently felt compelled to add significant new spending.

Brad, the producers, writer and their associates felt compelled to help these families, and after much research they chose our organization. These families need financial and emotional support, and if all of us just gave a little more then we can help them in their time of need.

So you're looking at what for a pretty low growth group has high earnings expectations. ...If they got cheaper from here, I might be compelled to do something, but it would have to coincide with more realistic expectations.

Now is not the time to bring in a town manager who would feel compelled to bring in their own people because we want to retain the first class management team that we already have in West Hartford. This selection brings protection to taxpayer money because no spending is needed to conduct a national search for a candidate.

As it stands, (pension) trustees will feel compelled to make companies adopt aggressive new funding plans regardless of the impact on the business or on scheme members.

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.

A lot of Jane's fears are based in her fear of being exposed, ... Because once phobias are exposed, you feel compelled to deal with them. And who wants to do that?

Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Fewer heterosexuals feel legally compelled to officially marry and more children are born outside of marriage's traditional terms. Some people may say that is a good thing. Some may say that it is not. That is simply a fact, and it is tragic that the notion of what is best for children gets so little discussion in this debate.

Even if a legal boater hits and injures a manatee, we want them to feel compelled to call in authorities to rescue the animal and not flee for fear of prosecution. Now if boaters are speeding in a slow zone, well, laws are there for that.

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.

There's nothing that suggests this is a breakout election, ... People know it's a close race, but that doesn't appear to have compelled them any more than the walkover election four years ago.

There's nothing that suggests this is a breakout election. People know it's a close race, but that doesn't appear to have compelled them any more than the walkover election four years ago.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

This fascination with the convergence of media and technology -- that's something that's compelled me for probably 20 years,

In all fairness, I feel compelled to warn men that women, even on good days, are compulsively manipulative. We constantly take advantage of the fact that men are either unaware of this particular trait or are wonderfully forgetful.

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

In this time of crisis, we feel personally compelled to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and this is a small way that we can accomplish that, ... We are fortunate to be in a position to show our support of the many families and people affected by this enormous disaster.

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,