Urges Quotes - Page 23

• It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

  Amy Sedaris

  Prison Time, Fire, Broken

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• Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

  Criss Jami

  Art, Vacation, Mind

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.40, Criss Jami

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• I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Issues, Government

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Zest, Rome, People

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  Dan Maffei

  Support, Important, Adequate

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• If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Unconquerable, Ifs

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• Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

  George Will

  Running, People, Office

  "Dan Pfeiffer previews State of the Union, 2014 agenda; Sen. Mitch McConnell on GOP efforts to retake the Senate". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

  Stephen Fry

  Afterlife, People, Inspire

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• Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Baby, Race, Young Love

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.117, Broadview Press

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• Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Pain, Mean, Dark

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• The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

  Sophy Burnham

  Creativity, Outcomes

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.112, Penguin

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• We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

  Suzy Welch

  Destiny, Careers, People

  "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". "Knowledge@Wharton show", knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Art, Boys

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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• We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Helping Others, People, World

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• Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Mad, Zombie, Might

  Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.3, Baylor University Press

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• While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

  Susanna Rowson

  Ruins, Inclination, Discretion

  Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin

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• I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

  Pat Heim

  Success, Mean, Winning

  Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

  Marina Abramovic

  Children, Artist, Missing

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• I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

  George W. Bush

  Jesus, Humor, Helping Others

  The "Jesus Day" Proclamation by George W. Bush, www.pbs.org. March 17, 2000.

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• I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Hard Work, Humor

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• It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is.

  George W. Bush

  Beautiful, Country, Determination

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• Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  James A. Haught

  Religious, Atheist, Compassion

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• The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

  Rupert Graves

  Trying, Acting, Sometimes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Uncontrollable Urge, Earth, Creatures

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