Urges Quotes

• I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

  Arundhati Roy

  Men, Civilization, Feelings

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.308, Penguin Books India

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• Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Rain, Army

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• I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, Clown, Knows

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

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• Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Acceptance, Self

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• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Science, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• Everything that is full of life loves change,
  for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love Life, Goal, Movement

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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• America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, America, People

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

  Giordano Bruno

  Desire

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• It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity, Settling, Status Quo

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Gun, Power, Design

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• It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

  Sue Grafton

  Years, Population, Dishonesty

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.105, Basic Books

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• You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Denial, Hinduism

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• In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Children, Fun

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, People, Ego

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• There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Desire, Misery, Contradiction

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• Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophical, Men

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

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• No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Stronger, World

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• Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

  Mother Teresa

  Knowing, Needs, Action

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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  Aaron Klug

  Powerful, Struggle, Secret

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• I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Roots, Magic

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

  Romulus Linney

  Sex, Play, Three

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