Uncontrollable Urge Quotes

• Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.

  E. J. Gold

  Reality, Breathing, Brain

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• For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Addiction, Looks

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• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Age

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Spiritual, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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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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• As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Needs, Awakening

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• It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Men, Sky

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

  Charles M. Schulz

  Earth, Creatures, Urges

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