Reading is not optional.

I don’t want to do anything I have to do, even if I want to do it. Compulsion takes the fun out of it.

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?””Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never...

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

If the if isn’t an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do,...

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith...

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I...

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I’m g-lyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within...

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a...

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in...

I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is...

Once you are defiled, you can’t get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I...

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c’induce, e non diletto.]

Love doesn’t come with an on-off switch. It’s made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Arminius, appealing to Lactantius, held that: ‘To recommend faith to others, we must make it the subject of persuasion, and not of compulsion’. He insisted that the true religion from Christ does not deteriorate into...

It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.

It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. “The way to banish temptation is to give into it,” the saying went. Maybe if she experienced a gangbang, it wouldn’t be such a big deal, and...

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles’ demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of...

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being ‘fine’ that we lose track of how ‘not fine’ we are.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I reeled with giddiness – flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power – wells that have had to be filled up because of persons throwing themselves...

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

…it’s always somebody’s fault – I blame you for my helpless love – do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me…

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms – human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many...

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn’t be held, only borrowed for a time.