Top 100 The Urge Quotes
#2. So. Ever get the urge to drown anyone?' Ariadne asked.
'No!' Andy replied, horrified.
'Shes just messing with you,' Helen assured her. Her face dropped. 'Seriously, though. What's your stance on strangling?'
'You mean apart from wanting to strangle both of you right now?
Josephine Angelini
#3. We all carry a dancer in ourselves. Even if we do not know anything about this dancer within us, we have the urge to awaken him within us.
Dick Mccaw
#4. I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.
Tim Cope
#5. The power of the anger flowing through me, the urge to get back to Perry while I could, had raised me into another level of consciousness. In other words, I was bat-shit crazy.
Karina Halle
#6. So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.
Vincent De Paul
#7. Goosefeather appeared from the gorse tunnel and padded straight to his den. He didn't even stop to ask how Leopardfoot was. Bluefur pressed back the urge to rake his muzzle with her claws. He's supposed to be the Clan medicine cat, for StarClan's sake!
Erin Hunter
#8. The urge to immortality is not a simple reflex of the death-anxiety but a reaching out by one's whole being toward life. Perhaps this natural expansion of the creature alone can explain why transference is such a universal passion.
Ernest Becker
#9. I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.
I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,
Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn't come.
I'm free, and against organized, clothed society.
I'm naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.
Fernando Pessoa
#10. I want you to trust me," Gabe whispered against her lips.
Lauren closed her eyes and fought the urge to kiss him. "I still don't."
Gabe laughed. "Yeah, you do. You might not want to, but you do.
Kishan Paul
#11. 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 bank, and the golden coins scatter.
Frances Mayes
#12. Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
Werner Herzog
#13. There is no perfect moment to say I love you because when you feel the urge to say the words of love then you are already in the perfect moment.
Ramona Matta
#14. Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
-Clary, pg.40-
Cassandra Clare
#15. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.
J. Oswald Sanders
#17. The urge to cut still pulled at me. Would I always have this urge? I wondered. Would I be like an alcoholic constantly fighting the desire to drink?
J.A. Templeton
#18. For a moment, I find myself fighting the urge to glance around and make sure no one is staring, but then, his eyes come back to mine and he smiles, and good God, but that smile has my stomach doing flip-flops and my brain stuttering.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#19. The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#20. She waited until she finished todo it, resisting the urge to play with herself. But dammit, when they got home she'd wank herself like a four-fisted monkey.
Tymber Dalton
#21. Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
Q-Tip
#22. 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
#23. King Stephen of Crystallia looked at the impassive face of William, the big, red-headed captain of Candlewax, and resisted the urge to throw something.
C. Bailey Sims
#24. Ellie fought the urge to stamp her foot. "I meant it this time. Do you accept my apology?"
"It appears," he said, raising his eyebrows, "that you might do me bodily harm if I do not."
"Ungracious prig," she muttered. "I am trying to apologize."
"And I," he said, "am trying to accept.
Julia Quinn
#25. The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
#26. The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...
Garth Ennis
#27. Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. But now, everything is so quiet. Not just the pool, but my mind, too. I don't even feel the urge to swim to the beat of a song. I'm mentally spent. Out of words. Out of thoughts. It feels so good to be this empty. It's so peaceful. -Sam
Tamara Ireland Stone
#29. I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go,
Joni Mitchell
#30. Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third - the urge to worship
Aldous Huxley
#31. I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran
Krista Alasti
#32. The urge to fall to the ground, rip my heart out of my chest and hold it out like a sacred offering was overwhelming. /Take it! Take it all!/ I'd cry.
Mariana Zapata
#33. Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You're already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you've got.
Kelley Armstrong
#34. 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
#35. Up here, people like that don't exist, Nash says quietly as he comes to stand beside me. He's so close his shoulder is brushing mine. I fight the urge to lean against him.
M. Leighton
#36. The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve
pancakes.
I must fight the urge to freak.
David Levithan
#37. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Gabriel Zaid
#38. The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.
Wynn Bullock
#39. Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.
Neal Shusterman
#40. Zach," Seth greeted him cautiously. "I'm surprised you joined us."
"Apparently, he's an enigma," Marcus drawled, the words dripping with sarcasm.
Seth actually felt the urge to smile.
"And you're the luckiest bastard on the planet," Zach declared. "They love you, faults and all.
Dianne Duvall
#41. The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow
#42. There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.
Bakunin
#43. If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
Naguib Mahfouz
#44. The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.
Brian South
#45. Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.
Arundhati Roy
#46. Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.
Nina Lugovskaya
#47. When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.
Meles Zenawi
#48. 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
#49. Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
Bruce Lee
#50. 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
#51. No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.
Jeffrey Lang
#52. I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Robert Smith
#53. The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.
Carl Sandburg
#54. I have an 800 [freephone] number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.
Warren Buffett
#55. Sometimes the light is on in his apartment upstairs and I get the urge to set the place on fire.
Colleen Hoover
#56. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
Jil Sander
#57. When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay.
Santideva
#58. The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#59. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
H.L. Mencken
#60. Nikolai had expected to have to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father's murderer, but he had never anticipated fighting the urge to fuck her.
Marissa Clarke
#61. Your lifeline ... oh, the burning stick. Right. Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!
Rick Riordan
#62. She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
Holly Black
#63. The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.
Thomas Moore
#64. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
Barack Obama
#65. The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I
Gail Collins
#66. I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.
David Levithan
#67. I couldn't fight the urge to close my eyes, to match my breathing to his. And I was flooded with a feeling that couldn't be serenity. Because Peacemakers were never meant to know real peace.
S.A. McAuley
#68. Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
William Allen White
#69. The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
Evan Spiegel
#70. Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. "Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn't even that good." She fought the urge to apologize.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#71. This is as close as I've ever heard to a Thomas and Carmel argument. And as special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness, I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.
Kendare Blake
#72. I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
Lord Dunsany
#73. The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
Amanda Palmer
#74. What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger ...
Harry Chapin
#75. When you have the urge to run away, you are feeding into fearful thoughts that keep you stuck. What benefit are you gaining by escaping? Is there a payoff to procrastinating?
Scott Allan
#76. If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.
Lady Sovereign
#77. Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect.
Azar Nafisi
#78. Charlie noted that more and more lately, he had a hard time resisting the urge to fuck with people, especially when they insisted upon behaving like idiots.
Christopher Moore
#79. Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
Gertrude Atherton
#80. What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China.
Denise Grover Swank
#81. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.
Eric Hoffer
#82. But when it comes down to actually packing and leaving, I can't bring myself to do it. Can you see what I mean?If the town's really going to die, then the urge to stay on and see the town to its end wins out.
Haruki Murakami
#83. The smell was like chocolate and cookies and biscuits and gravy and everything else that was delicious. It damn near drove me crazy every time I had to touch one. I'd been fighting the cravings the way I'd never fought the urge to take drugs or get drunk.
Diana Rowland
#84. The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.
Klaus Nomi
#85. Do not cross your legs, she advises. Keeping both feet on the ground signals that you, well, have both feet on the ground. ... If you feel the urge to move out of nervousness, do some toe crunches since the interviewer won't notice those.
Kate White
#86. I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.
Rod Serling
#87. Of course there are urged that I fight against, but none stronger than the urge to hear your voice, touch your face, or now you are near. I will never want anything as much as I want you. Nothing in this world could taste better than your kiss. -Kale
Inger Iversen
#88. 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
#89. I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.
Devon Monk
#90. An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.
Siobhan Davis
#91. What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.
David Eugene Smith
#92. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
Aldous Huxley
#93. No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
H.G.Wells
#94. Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Patricia Briggs
#95. If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next ... resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.
John R Noe
#96. Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.
Keri Arthur
#97. The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#98. She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.
Holly Black
#99. At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
George Plimpton
#100. Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true
it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.
Tara Brach
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