Urge Quotes
682 Urge quotes by 562 unique authors
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We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
— Anna Lindh
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Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under…
— Tim Cahill
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It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
— Robert Frost
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It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
— Seth Godin
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I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
— Simon McBurney
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,…
— Charlton Heston
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Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It…
— Rod Stewart
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As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any…
— Stansfield Turner
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I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
— Kofi Annan
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I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual…
— William Borah
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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster…
— Denis de Rougemont
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What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how…
— Harry Chapin
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What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual…
— Unknown Author
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Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their…
— Dalai Lama
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I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves…
— Franz Marc
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist…
— Jacqueline Carey
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People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship with those who…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only…
— Liam O'Flaherty
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