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• I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

  James E. Faust

  Husband, Father, Men

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• The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Wild Geese, Goes On

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• Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Men

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• Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

  Sheri L. Dew

  Finals, Earth, Sometimes

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• As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Book, Artist

  "The Mistakes in This Essay Are My Own" by John Maxwell Hamilton, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 1990.

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• in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wings, Trying, Apollo

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, Memory: A Memoir”

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• It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

  Lydia Millet

  Eye, Light, Sea

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Voice, Feelings, Given

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

  Paul Tillich

  Desire, Reunion, States

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Might, Sunlight

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• These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.

  Alice Sebold

  Party, Honor, Favors

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Underestimate, Complexity

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.13, Storey Publishing

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• Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Appreciation, Thinking

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

  David Byrne

  Plot, Purpose, Stories

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

  Aya Nakahara

  Moving, Mean, Feelings

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• 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

  Bridges, Skins, Wanted

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• Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Fighting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Betrayal, Writing, Destiny

  Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “Travelling with Pomegranates”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ice Cream, People, Feelings

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• I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

  Meg Rosoff

  Sea, Swim, Leap

  "What I Was: A Novel". Book by Meg Rosoff, 2007.

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• So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you, even in wolf form.' He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?' He rolled his eyes. Hey, you're the one who was worried.' I paused. 'And I don't smell like dinner, right?' I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Real, Eye, Smell

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• That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Surprise, Tendencies, Ecstatic

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• The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Creative, Destruction

  "Die Reaktion in Deutschland," Jahrbuch fur Wissenschaft und Kunst (1842)

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