Urging Quotes

78 quotes by 76 authors

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. — Tayari Jones
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to… — Caroline Knapp
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. — Khalil Gibran
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and… — Henri Bergson
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask… — Walter Cronkite
We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging… — Dave Barry
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans… — Ron Fournier
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform,… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. — Dylan Moran
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and… — Florence Nightingale
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my… — J D Salinger
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and… — Mikhail Bakunin
I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. Youâ€™re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it,… — Lisa Kleypas
Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to… — Erin Hunter
Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe… — P.G. Wodehouse
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is… — John Henry Newman

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