Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication,… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Not a day has gone by that I have not communicated with my Father in Heaven through prayer. It is a relationship… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling… — Patricia Garfield Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Like punch through the brick wall he’d built around himself and give in to the sudden, desperate urges to touch, to taste,… — Jami Alden Copy Share Image
I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image