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N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. -- Caryl Parker Haskins
You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior. -- Mark Hyman
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. -- Jim Davis
People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands. -- Monica Johnson
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. -- Tom Lantos
I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me. -- Kiki Dee
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. -- Anna Julia Cooper
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror. -- Richard Perle
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
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. -- Michael Leunig
I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get. -- Tom Felton
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important. -- Pamela Stephenson
Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany. -- Gunter Grass
You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement. -- Jon Anderson
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. -- John Yoo
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. -- Arthur Peacocke
I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges. -- Payne Stewart
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith. -- Maeve Binchy
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell. -- Charles Duhigg
I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me. -- Ryan Kwanten
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. -- Rowan Williams
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
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. -- W. Clement Stone
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved. -- Gabrielle Union
I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me. -- Joe Greene
Necessity urges desperate measures. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Curiosity urges you on-driving force. -- John Dos Passos
Busy idleness urges us on. -- Horace
A short retirement urges a sweet return. -- John Milton
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me. -- Giordano Bruno
People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges. -- Young-Ha Kim
Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno. -- Deborah Harkness
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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] -- Horace
Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience -- Joshua Harris
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. -- Barry Lopez
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. -- David Seabury
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man. -- Elbert Hubbard
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? -- Khalil Gibran
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. -- Romulus Linney
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. -- Susanna Rowson
China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations. -- Li Zhaoxing
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. -- Judith Viorst
The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process. -- Doreen Virtue
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own. -- Neale Donald Walsch
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community. -- Tony Abbott
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. -- Horace
Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction -- Heinrich Harrer
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. -- Honore de Balzac
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. -- Alain de Botton
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others. -- Pope Leo XIII
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. -- Camille Paglia
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. -- David Edelstein
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God . -- Cesare Pavese
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy. -- Carrie Fisher
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. -- Horace
Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed. -- Kim Paffenroth
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ... -- Alice Duer Miller
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. -- John Green
Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies. -- Edward Gibbon
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires. -- Amy Sedaris
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts"?not to hurt others. -- George Eliot
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. -- Marcel Proust
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
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment. -- Jennifer Birkett
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. -- Horace
The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people. -- Max Lucado
The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition. -- Roger Housden
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
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. -- Carlos Fuentes
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. -- Heinrich Heine
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open... -- Martha Graham
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess. -- Oleg Romanishin
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos. -- Rene Konig
Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for. -- Victoria Moran
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images. -- Minor White
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place. -- Letitia Baldrige
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way. -- Jim Cymbala
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. -- Homer
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses. -- Kieron Gillen
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face. -- Camille Paglia
We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand. -- Selma Fraiberg
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place. -- Confucius
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us. -- John Green

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