Urge Quotes
682 Urge quotes by 562 unique authors
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He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of…
— Robert E. Howard
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One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic…
— Lynne McTaggart
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The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know…
— Phil Cousineau
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I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.
— Gary Bauer
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John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in…
— Richard Corliss
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You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If…
— Irving Kahn
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On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at…
— Billy Graham
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For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the…
— Muhammad Asad
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One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and…
— Patrik Baboumian
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Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace,…
— Criss Jami
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The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am…
— Stephen Leacock
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
— Stephen Fry
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I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop…
— Phil Collins
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to…
— Confucius
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
— Robertson Davies
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
— Umberto Eco
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
— Albert Einstein
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people…
— Larry Elder
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by…
— Nora Ephron
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When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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