Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate… — Edward S. Jordan Copy Share Image
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress… — Carl Pope Copy Share Image
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are… — Lawren Harris 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
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
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by… — John Green Copy Share Image
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses… — Homer Copy Share Image
O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou… — Ildefonsus Copy Share Image
. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an… — Beatrice M. Hinkle 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
Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“Uhh... I mean, uh, sorry you had to see that, but you know how it is when you get those, uh, manly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress… — Confucius Copy Share Image
