Top 100 Quotes About Urges
#1. The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
Arthur Eddington
#2. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
Camille Paglia
#3. Deny a young boy the right to have a toy gun and you will suppress his destructive urges, and he will turn out to be a homosexual - or worse!
Germaine Greer
#4. Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace
#5. The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
#6. You have become what you are through countless lives and lessons. There is something you can offer others; if only working on your self-discipline, fighting your own baser urges.
Do that then. Do what is offered. Learn and grow as you can.
That in itself is service.
Edward Fahey
#7. [ ... ] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.
Helen DeWitt
#8. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.
Anne Rice
#9. Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
Judith Viorst
#10. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.
Oliver Markus
#11. The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
Marcel Proust
#12. The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.
Doreen Virtue
#13. I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
Zora Neale Hurston
#14. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.
Penelope Douglas
#15. I don't know anything other than that it's always been her, from the moment I saw her three years ago. She's the thing that I've yearned for more than anything else. And for that reason, she's the one thing I can never have. I cannot control my urges. My instincts.
A. Zavarelli
#16. My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?
Marcus Aurelius
#17. I didn't always have these dark and blood-thirsty urges but I sure as hell did adapt to them.
R.L. Vogeler
#18. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Heinrich Harrer
#19. The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia
#20. Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.
Billy Graham
#21. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#22. TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
Bennett Cerf
#23. Sometimes when you feel the urge, you've just gotta go.
Mike Shannon
#24. Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies
Edward Gibbon
#25. Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
Mel Brooks
#27. I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes
Steven Wilson
#28. People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.
Monica Johnson
#29. While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Susanna Rowson
#30. We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?
Dianna Hardy
#31. She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.
Edward Hoagland
#32. What I don't like about Guinevere is the fact that she can't control her passions and urges. She gets herself into quite a love triangle, and quite a web. Personally, I find that very difficult to relate to. But, it wouldn't be interesting, if she did everything right.
Tamsin Egerton
#33. I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
Susan Sontag
#34. In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.'
Conan O'Brien
#36. There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.
Bill Murray
#37. What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
Horace
#38. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
Ed Greenwood
#39. Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions.
Valson Thampu
#40. Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.
David Byrne
#41. I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
Gabrielle Zevin
#42. And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time.
Debalina Haldar
#43. Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.
Lily Montagu
#44. China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.
Li Zhaoxing
#45. I ran to him, torn by conflicting urges. I wanted to hurt him. I wanted to make sure he was unhurt. I wanted to leave him in the dirt and run away. I wanted him to stop me from leaving.
Elly Blake
#46. A short retirement urges a sweet return.
John Milton
#47. Every man is subconsciously promiscuous, but it is the conscious mind that keeps those primordial urges in check. A healthy brain creates a healthy mind, which keeps your relationship strong, safe and healthy.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever I sit down to write a story.
Amos Oz
#49. Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.
Selma Fraiberg
#50. Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
#51. 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 too.
Anna Julia Cooper
#52. One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
But also urges us to dare the stars,
This irresistible, this ancient power
Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.
Philip Jose Farmer
#53. Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
Carrie Fisher
#54. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.
Billy Graham
#55. There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs,
dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.
David Levithan
#56. will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it.
Bernard Malamud
#57. Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
#58. I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges.
Jennifer Crusie
#59. Writing a check was easily done, and easily done with. It allows us to do "charity" while keeping at bay the inner tug that urges us to give more of ourselves and our time, rather than our possessions.
Joseph Langford
#60. A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
Oleg Romanishin
#61. He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
Heinrich Heine
#62. The secret is to become someone else, something else. All sex grows dull. You renew it by reinventing yourself, and as a new character, you have new urges. I adore being a rabbit.
Chloe Thurlow
#63. You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.
Ellie Goulding
#64. Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.
Victoria Moran
#65. 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 dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer
#66. Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.
George Eliot
#67. The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#68. We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
Tony Abbott
#69. 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
#70. Third, as the ladies have clearly mastered the female art of chastity, our masculine inability to control our urges rather weakens our claims to be the stronger sex.
Courtney Milan
#71. Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
#73. My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check.
Simone Elkeles
#75. and he urges the old man to remember the last moment he felt his being without its relation to beloved Amedea, his last moment of individual happiness or longing -
Jess Walter
#76. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Carlos Fuentes
#77. The kernel of the 11th house is 'the urge to become something greater than we already are'.
Howard Sasportas
#78. Uhh... I mean, uh, sorry you had to see that, but you know how it is when you get those, uh, manly urges, and you just gotta kill somethin'...fix things, uh, cook outdoors...
Mulan
#80. Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.
Patricia Garfield
#81. Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.
Desmond Morris
#82. 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 us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.
James O. Freedman
#83. I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges.
Sara Quin
#84. Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Warren Buffett
#85. When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone
#86. Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.
Jake Colsen
#87. Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.
Erik Erikson
#88. There is a missionary spirit - a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.
Carlos E. Asay
#89. We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
#90. 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 I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.
Ryan Kwanten
#91. Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience
Joshua Harris
#92. What urge will save us now that sex won't?
Jenny Holzer
#93. I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges
me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up
as drug dealers.
Simone Elkeles
#94. Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.
Neale Donald Walsch
#96. 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 active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.
Huldrych Zwingli
#97. We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
Cesare Pavese
#98. Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.
Tom Lantos
#99. To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
Vincent Van Gogh
#100. People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.
Young-Ha Kim
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