Urge Quotes - page 3

...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. (Carl von Clausewitz)
So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
Your lifeline... oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA! View quote
Rick Riordan
So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile. View quote
Rick Riordan
Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. View quote
Rick Riordan
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks. View quote
Andrew Weil
I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel. View quote
Deborah King
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin. View quote
David Levithan
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. View quote
J.R. Ward
Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin. (James Patterson)
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. View quote
John Krasinski
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. View quote
Carson McCullers
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. View quote
William Graham Sumner
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. View quote
Agnes de Mille
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. View quote
Meg Rosoff
And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative. View quote
Mike Pence
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. View quote
Raymond Carver
I have a really powerful urge to see things work. (Bill Budge)
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected. View quote
Bruno Rossi
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. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not. View quote
Ernest Borgnine