I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Al margen del par?ntesis en el pulso constante que manten?amos desde que nos hab?amos conocido, yo cre?a seguir teniendo claro lo que me conven?a. Hubiera firmado en ese mismo instante por una aventura de una noche con alg?n tipo guapo y amable, algo que devolviera mi coraz?n a la vida, que me mostrara que los para siempre no existen pero los aqu? y ahora no est?n tan mal. Porque seguir esperando el amor perfecto me resultaba pueril y ya hab?a descubierto que la ingenuidad solo se traduce en dolor y heridas que nunca terminan de cicatrizar.

At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people who need poetry, by a private anthology, both of those automatically absorbed and of poems consciously chosen and memorized as though one were stocking up for a desert island or for a stretch of solitary.

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16 at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16 I was in a boarding school-which I believe at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Religion is compulsory in English schools you know.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.