Urges Quotes - Page 26

• . . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Creative, Understanding, Facts

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• I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Years, Six, Term

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• The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Christmas, Boys, Littles

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• 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

  Hands, Personality, Balance

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Animal, Pleasure Seeking

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Not a day has gone by that I have not communicated with my Father in Heaven through prayer. It is a relationship I cherish-one I would literally be lost without. If you do not now have such a relationship with your Father in Heaven, I urge you to work toward that goal. As you do so, you will be entitled to His inspiration and guidance in your life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Father, Inspiration

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• ...visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

  Tim McCoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Commitment

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• As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Freedom, Responsibility

  "Graham rebukes Paul on vaccines" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

  Kent Nerburn

  Marriage, Children, Father

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• I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doctors, Rights

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (pp. 276-277), 1982.

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• Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

  Abraham Myerson

  Life, Block, Believe

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• I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Stress, Years

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• The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

  Terry Gross

  Sex, Past, Law

  "Legislating Desire: An Author's Take On 'Bad Laws And Good Sex'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 11, 2015.

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• I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Thinking, People

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Eggs, Bird, Development

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.

  Richard Branson

  Cities In The World, People, London

  "Richard Branson On Being Richard Branson". uk.askmen.com. September 8, 2012.

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• The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together.

  Michael Light

  Letting Go, Thinking, Dancing

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

  John Green

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Beautiful, Lonely, Grandchildren

  Source: rutherford.org

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• It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mean, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• 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

  People, Knows, Happened

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. March 27, 2011.

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• We're [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It's healthy and full of vitamins and minerals.

  Jennie Finch

  Vitamins And Minerals, People, League

  "Jennie Finch Interview: Softball All-Time Great Talks About the Game" by Chris Eggemeyer, bleacherreport.com. October 26, 2010.

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• There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

  James Hillman

  Philosophy, Who I Am, Childhood

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• Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dream, Two, Long

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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