Urges Quotes
121 quotes by 111 authors
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
— H.G. Wells
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
— John Milton
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We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
— David Seabury
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There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have…
— Rajneesh
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Seneca the Younger
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Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to…
— Homer
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is…
— J. C. Kumarappa
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I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that…
— Ryan Kwanten
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come…
— Pamela Stephenson
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By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the…
— Pascal Bruckner
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The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.
— Barry Lopez
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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges…
— Minor White
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture…
— Rene Konig
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Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change…
— Tim Hansel
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Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of…
— James O. Freedman
Who Wrote These Urges Quotes
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