I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles… — Wyatt Earp Copy Share Image
This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain… — Le1f Copy Share Image
As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka 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
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that… — Thomas S. Monson 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
This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer.… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image