Imperative Quotes

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Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For… — Cormac McCarthy
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of… — Michael J. Fox
The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else. — Steven Pinker
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the… — Robert Farrar Capon
Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself as you seek your way in life, I offer you "the way, the truth, and the life"… — Jeffrey R. Holland
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love… — E. M. Forster
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;… — Andrew Sullivan
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasnâ€™t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was… — Tessa Dare
Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question… — Maggie Stiefvater
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more… — Victor Serge
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible… — Tea Obreht
She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would… — Neil Gaiman
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have… — Simone Weil
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. — Ida Tarbell
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of… — R C Sproul
Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love… — Marc Ian Barasch
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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