Quotes About Being Coerced

#1. I can't believe I'm being coerced by a bird.

Cate Rowan

#2. Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.

Andre Alexis

#3. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

John Perry Barlow

#4. [I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

Jasper Fforde

#5. We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that 'there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet

Robert Mugabe

#6. The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Ayya Khema

#7. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

Mitch Albom

#8. really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able

Alan Cumming

#9. Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

Sue Thoele

#10. I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor.

Dane DeHaan

#11. Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Patrick Marber

#12. Life is a joyful journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

Zack Love

#14. Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left.

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#15. Magic isn't something you buy in a store

Cyndi Sand-Eveland

#16. Fooles give to please all but their owne.

George Herbert

#17. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

Elaine S. Dalton

#18. When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

Jaron Lanier