The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge… — Brett Dennen 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
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be. — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. — Louis Gustave Vapereau Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer 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
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
