Resist The Urge Quotes

#1. Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

Joanna Newsom

#2. As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.

M.J. Rose

#3. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Seth Godin

#4. He looked down at her, finding it difficult to resist the urge to climb over her prone body and kiss her senseless. "Would you mind telling me why you were drinking pear brandy in the middle of the afternoon?"
"Because I couldn' open the sherry."
His lips twitched.
-Marcus & Lillian

Lisa Kleypas

#5. To resist the urge to kick my grandma I grabbed a roll, ripped it in half, and proceeded to slather it with butter.

Micalea Smeltzer

#6. It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. When you identify the discomfort, you've found the place where a leader is needed.

Seth Godin

#7. It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Ann Landers

#8. 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, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

Russell Baker

#9. I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#10. ... my mother reached over and laid her hand on my arm, saying that was true, ... and I felt something twist in me, the motion of some unthinking thing when it is gripped too hard, and I had to resist the urge to pull away.

Garth Greenwell

#11. Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety - and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

Kelly G. Wilson

#12. We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Jacqueline Carey

#13. I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.

Sarah Vowell

#14. I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

Mahesh Babu

#15. Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other? ... Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

Sheri Dew

#16. Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Rick Riordan

#17. I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

Miranda July

#18. I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.

M. Leighton

#19. In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

J.K. Rowling

#20. It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

Sue Grafton

#21. I take the lighter and resist the urge to hug him. Tristan says I can be a little too touchy-feely. Actually, his term is touchy-fucky but I modify it to make myself feel better.

Leisa Rayven

#22. 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 to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

Robert Breault

#23. I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.

Peter V. Brett

#24. 1. I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with a spirit of contentment.

Priscilla Shirer

#25. I resist the urge to let my anxiety win
to let it take over what I love
to let it stop me from doing what I love
from loving myself.

Fida Islaih

#26. Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

Patricia Hamill

#27. His dark hair was thick and looked so soft I had to resist the urge to touch it. Looking into his dark eyes was like falling into the stars, making me feel weightless and disoriented.

Gwen Hayes

#28. Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care!

Johanna Lindsey

#29. Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

Gudjon Bergmann

#30. This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.

Mary Heaton Vorse

#31. It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

George MacDonald Fraser

#32. At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

Leonardo DiCaprio