#impelled

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

#apologetic #grateful #i #i am #impelled

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

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

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

#book #changed #could #diaper #every

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

#feel #i #i feel #impelled #language

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. ↗

— Dean Inge

#always #attraction #contains #element #faith

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

#am #being #conclusion #dealt #disease

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. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#did #empire #forget #i #i want you

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

#canal #deeper #digestive #discovery #expected

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

#both #clinic #come #desire #disciplined

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

#arrive #catalogue #connected #doing #dry