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If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. -- Dorothy Parker
If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic. -- Woody Allen
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify. -- Arundhati Roy
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. -- John Steinbeck
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. -- William Ralph Inge
I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs. -- Sarah Hall
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. -- Ivan Pavlov
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. -- Karl Jaspers
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. -- Jerome K. Jerome
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. -- Alfred Einstein
While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. -- Edward VIII
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. -- Edmund White
I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it. -- Richard Eyre
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world. -- Edmund White
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by. -- Vikram Seth
It is our business to go as we are impelled. -- D. H. Lawrence
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake. -- William Mulock
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions. -- Jerome Bruner
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. -- Wilkie Collins
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. -- Berenice Abbott
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization. -- Man Ray
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. -- Clarence H. Burns
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions -- Marcel Proust
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. -- A. A. Milne
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. -- Abraham Lincoln
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions. -- Howard Zinn
Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center. -- Isaac Newton
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is -- Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. -- William Ralph Inge
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? -- Sophie Swetchine
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about. -- Lou Reed
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be. -- Eric Hoffer
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime. -- Susan B. Anthony
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life? -- Charles Dickens
[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought. -- Simone Weil
Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement. -- Angela Davis
If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force. -- Antonin Artaud
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result. -- Edgar Cayce
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time. -- Max Frisch

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