Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus… — Batya Gur Copy Share Image
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act,… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be… — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming Out their eccentric meaning.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image