Compellers Quotes & Sayings

Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost-
May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer? — Emily Dickinson

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor. — David Alan Grier

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. — Louis Finkelstein

Levelheaded is not what you need, Sam. Damn it. You promised to leave me alone. But I am a miserable liar. Go away. And don't tell me what I need. You need passion. Sam — Paula Quinn

To us, innovation entails both the production and implementation of novel and useful ideas. — Anonymous

I've thought a lot about you in that time. The more I've thought, the more I've come to feel that I was unfair to you. I probably should have been a better, fairer person when it came to the way I treated you. — Haruki Murakami

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't. — Tony Dungy

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation. — Henry Miller

The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. — Raquel Cepeda

The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water around us. — Sue Monk Kidd