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Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business? -- Kersten Hamilton
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules. -- Christopher Hitchens
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. -- Dylan Moran
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. -- Florence Nightingale
In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes. -- Lois Capps
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. -- Charles J. Shields
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture. -- Paul Keating
Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals. -- Robert Pozen
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. -- Russ Carnahan
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. -- Ron Fournier
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. -- Elihu Root
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash. -- Gerrit Smith
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices. -- Bob Ney
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. -- Tony Campolo
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. -- Theodore Sturgeon
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. -- Peter Welch
I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me. -- Rachel Sklar
I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old. -- Brian Dennehy
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. -- Cybill Shepherd
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. -- Caroline Knapp
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do. -- Buzz Aldrin
There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. -- Rose George
Teaching is of more importance than urging. -- Martin Luther
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small. -- Florence Nightingale
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. -- Khalil Gibran
What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God. -- Max Lucado
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. -- William Shakespeare
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. -- Tayari Jones
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval. -- George Takei
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, -- George Saunders
He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, Have I lost you love~? -- Erin Jamison
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. -- Novalis
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. -- Geraldo Rivera
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Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you. -- Beth Moore
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals. -- Paul Fussell
Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate. -- Bill Mollison
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. -- Andrew Hacker
If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. -- Stacy Hawkins Adams
To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. -- Richard Halverson
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own. -- Richard Bach
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. -- Henri Bergson
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average. -- Charles A. Murray
The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry. -- Jay Leno
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. -- Susan B. Anthony
I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind. -- Q-Tip
The White House is now urging Americans not to 'read too much' into last week's jobs report. In fact, they said it would be best if you didn't read it at all. -- Jay Leno
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days. -- Maggie Stiefvater
You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach. -- Alistair Begg
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume. -- Margaret Halsey
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war. -- Walter Cronkite
There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us. -- Wayne Dyer
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith. -- Francois Quesnay

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