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compels

«Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence»
«Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.»
«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.»
«Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Astronomy | Keywords: astronomy, compels, leads, upwards
«Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading»
«It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: compels, convictions
«Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion»
«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.»
«And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.»
Author: Margaret Mead | Keywords: began, compels, stirs, struggles