Urge Quotes

682 Urge quotes by 562 unique authors

Seems to me we move the furniture, the French come in later and put the doilies on top of it...It's a simple fact they've always… — Dennis Miller
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The one who pulls is the one they urge on. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. — Luigi Pulci
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion… — Gloria Steinem
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables,… — Russell Baker
Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge… — Robert Breault
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not… — Andrew Jackson
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... — Carl Sagan
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in… — E. Stanley Jones
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game… — John Lahr
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and… — Louis Sullivan
I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be… — Jo Nesbo
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think… — Leo Ornstein
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over… — Andrei Sakharov
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to… — Ken Salazar

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