Urges Quotes - Page 34

• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, People, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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• The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

  Nora Ephron

  Regret, Believe, Being Single

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Visionaries, Oracles, World

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.

  Tom Felton

  Shopping, Stuff, Kind

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• I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

  Stephen Fry

  Pregnancy, Book, Writing

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• I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

  Kim Kardashian

  Mistake, People, Drink

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• One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Brother, Doors

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• Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

  John Krasinski

  Fall, Fighting, Thinking

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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  Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Children, Greatness, Organization

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

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• Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Dream, Business, Lunch

  Interview with Kris Herbst for Internet World, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Fighting, Life Is, Threatened

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• URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Giving, Charity

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

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• Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

  Kevin McCloud

  House, Needs, Building

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• I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Standards, Hold Fast

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• Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

  Azar Nafisi

  Atrocities, Silent, Innocent

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• It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Agents, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

  Susan Orlean

  Father, Book, Writing

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

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• And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Allies, Principles

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

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• I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

  Richard Pryor

  Animal, Abuse, Suffering

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• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  Nancy Reagan

  Opportunity, Cells, Promise

  "Reagans Cheer Obama Stem Cell Order — But Not Invited To Ceremony" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Novel

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• I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

  Gene Simmons

  Dollars, Band, Care

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

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