Urge Quotes

682 Urge quotes by 562 unique authors

Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made… — Rachel Caine
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great… — Anne Frank
The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing. — Tina Fey
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if… — Aldous Huxley
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible… — Gregory David Roberts
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go… — Homer
I felt the electricity of his body behind me as he reached around me and took the card from my hand. He didn't move away,… — Karen Marie Moning
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you… — Russell Brand
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced… — Daphne du Maurier
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. — George Orwell
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for… — Carson McCullers
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. — John Green
We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least… — Cecelia Ahern
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are… — Ivo Andric
I don’t like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything… — Christine Feehan
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San… — Michael Scott
I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into… — Jim Butcher
I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale… — Lauren Oliver
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. — Noam Chomsky
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory… — Frances Mayes
He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did… — Jeaniene Frost
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There… — Alain de Botton
The girl I’ve been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly. — L.A. Weatherly
The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change… — Benjamin Hoff
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov

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