Urge Quotes

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The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, — Andrew Davidson
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can… — Gabriel Zaid
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. — Unknown Author
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge… — David Eugene Smith
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. — Homer
If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason… — Brother Lawrence
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural… — Jessica Mitford
This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of… — Mary Heaton Vorse
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to… — David Ignatow
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. Iâ€™ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine du Plessix Gray
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.… — Roger Lowenstein
No one should ever be afraid of failing; itâ€™s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is… — Chrissie Wellington
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim… — Elinor Ostrom
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to… — Wayne Dyer
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral… — Hugh Hefner
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to… — Carl Jung
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will… — Unknown Author
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell

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