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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. -- Andre Gide
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. -- Catherine Tate
I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas. -- Nina Conti
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. -- Marilyn vos Savant
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. -- Mark Stevens
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. -- Eric Hoffer
The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues. -- Alex Pareene
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism. -- David Harsanyi
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. -- Francesco Guicciardini
'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse. -- Shawn Amos
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. -- Mercy Otis Warren
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. -- William Kingdon Clifford
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. -- Samuel Johnson
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. -- Paul Fussell
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. -- Emily Oster
In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share. -- Christopher Lloyd
If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter. -- Zachary Levi
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Whatever your faith prompts you to do, begin now. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is. -- Bob Goff
Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. -- Masha Tupitsyn
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction -- John Gay
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. -- John Gay
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. -- David Berlinski
May you find grace and strength to achieve all the good things your faith prompts you to do. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust. -- Robert Breault
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. -- George Santayana
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor. -- Tony Dungy
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. -- Eric Hoffer
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. -- Muhammad Yunus
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... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession. -- George Eliot
Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.Of -- R. C. Sproul
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods -- Mercy Otis Warren
For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it. -- Albert Einstein
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously. -- Luc de Clapiers
The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you. -- M. Russell Ballard
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him. -- D. H. Lawrence
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. -- Michel de Montaigne
Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness. -- Charles Seymour Robinson
The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave. -- Adam Smith
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses. -- Thomas Jefferson
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong. -- L. Frank Baum
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. -- Alexander Pope
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things. -- John of the Cross
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods. -- Aristophanes
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts. -- Alexander Chee
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception. -- William Wilberforce
Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters our lives. God still speaks. He prompts. He guides. He blesses. He gives. -- Thomas S. Monson

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