Urges Quotes - Page 38

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Clive James

Funny, Humorous, Drinking

Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

Dianne Feinstein

Determination, Husband, Gun

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I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.

Pope Benedict XVI

Community, Spirit, Cooperation

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If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Rajneesh

Creativity, Meditation, Silent

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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

Rajneesh

Children, Drama, Writing

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I have no urge to go back to college.

Kristin Cavallari

College, Back To College

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He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

Thomas Aquinas

Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

Arthur Golden

Cat, Wish, Fool

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No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

Nhat Hanh

Real, Wine, Glasses

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As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Dan Barker

Compassion, Past, Destiny

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I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Albert Einstein

Wonder, Rational, Reserves

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The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

Dennis Miller

Rights, World, Bills

Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.105, Main Street Books

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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Jack Horner

Children, Dinosaurs

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To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

Evgeny Morozov

Political, Needs, Lessons

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I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

Witty, Humorous, Conquer

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People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

Young-Ha Kim

People, Want

Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Kurt Vonnegut

Love, Inspirational, Life

Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Book, Home, Writing

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Terry Pratchett

Stars, Thoughtful, Night

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I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Margaret Cho

War, Love Yourself, Today

"Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". Documentary, Comedy, 2002.

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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Mark Steyn

Insecure, Government, Self

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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

Sylvia Plath

Jobs, Writing, Expression

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.81, Anchor

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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

Appreciation, Book, Cutting

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.9, Canongate Books

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Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

Stars, Disappointment, Heart

"Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

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The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Powerful, Dancing, Perfect

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