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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. -- Homer
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. -- James Thurber
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy. -- Hayao Miyazaki
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. -- Lois Lowry
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. -- Richard Pryor
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. -- Deepak Chopra
I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much. -- Drake
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. -- Confucius
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -- Arthur Ashe
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. -- Kofi Annan
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. -- Tim Berners-Lee
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer. -- Dick Cavett
Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall. -- John Krasinski
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. -- Plato
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. -- Bruce Lee
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. -- Loren Eiseley
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. -- E. Stanley Jones
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. -- Nora Ephron
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. -- Jim Valvano
Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories. -- Jean Craighead George
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. -- Larry Elder
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. -- Fran Lebowitz
All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed. -- James E. Faust
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. -- Alfred Adler
It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience. -- Marina Abramovic
I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country. -- Paul Biya
I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim. -- Trey Songz
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- Michael C. Reed
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. -- Arnold Palmer
Your urge to control life controls you. -- Mooji
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. -- Seth Godin
The urge to destroy is a creative urge. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge! -- Mikhail Bakunin
I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs. -- Jack Horner
I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader -- D. J. MacHale
What urge will save us now that sex won't? -- Jenny Holzer
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. -- Pablo Picasso
I have no urge to go back to college. -- Kristin Cavallari
I urge you to please notice when you are happy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I have a really powerful urge to see things work. -- Bill Budge
The one who pulls is the one they urge on. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain. -- Devon Monk
The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God. -- Sophy Burnham
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I would strenuously urge a single term of six years. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Sometimes when you feel the urge, you've just gotta go. -- Mike Shannon
I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames. -- Pal Benko
The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal. -- Douglas Coupland
Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe. -- Patricia Briggs
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today... -- Bill Burr
And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram. -- Lynn Redgrave
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. -- J. K. Rowling
I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go, -- Joni Mitchell
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. -- John Dewey
I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge. -- Buzz Aldrin
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. -- Greg Bear
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere -- Gyorgy Lukacs
I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge. -- Jim Carrey
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. -- Agnes de Mille
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. -- Albert Camus
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins -- Priscilla Shirer
Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it. -- Margot Robbie
you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life. -- Jane Smiley
Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another. -- Roy Peter Clark
We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us. -- Will Rogers
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. -- Alexander Pope
If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing. -- Theodore Dreiser
A stream of primal voicesWhispering in the breeze of your heartTo urge you on. -- Scott Hastie
thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think. -- Hannah Arendt
I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message. -- Jane Goodall
What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge. -- Ravi Shankar
I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder. -- Albert Einstein
English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it -- Werner Herzog
My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire -- Seema Gupta
The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... -- Carl Sagan
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought. -- Bennett Cerf
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it. -- Brian South
I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know. -- Michael J. Fox
The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?. -- Louis Gustave Vapereau
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. -- Kofi Annan
All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt! -- Charles M. Schulz
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something? -- Joe Hill
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. -- Zora Neale Hurston
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. -- H. G. Wells
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. -- Harry Bertoia
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. -- Mark Twain
I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran -- Krista Alasti
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. -- Kathryn Bigelow
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. -- H. L. Mencken
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. -- Susan Sontag
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. -- Agatha Christie
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. -- Mark Shuttleworth
I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver. -- Thomas S. Monson
You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss! -- Sathya Sai Baba
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. -- Raymond Carver
For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting. -- Patanjali
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. -- Meg Rosoff
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. -- Dick Cavett
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. -- David Hockney
The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education. -- Sai Baba
I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people. -- Jill Soloway
Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season -- Josh Stern
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. -- Bruce Lee
Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial. -- James Tiptree Jr.
I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. -- Gary Bauer
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. -- George Orwell
I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not. -- Ernest Borgnine
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise. -- Evan Esar
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. -- Tom Stoppard
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. -- Stephen Fry
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. -- Robin Marantz Henig
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. -- Frances Mayes

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