That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees,… — Milton Avery Copy Share Image
Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader,… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have… — Coley Sohn Copy Share Image
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
