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Quotes About Urge

The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act, when curiosity and fascination tipped the scale of caution, when the lure of a vision and an adventure became so great and deep-hooking that he must respond to it or have his inmost self-respect eaten away.
~ Fritz Leiber
I did care... I did say everything I thought In the mildest words I knew. And now,... I have to say I'm relieved it is over: At the end I could feel only pity For that urge toward more life. ...Goodbye
~ Galway Kinnell
I urged the German Christians to become missionaries; because it has been my experience that a missionary church is an alive church. At
~ Brother Andrew
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
~ Bruce Lee
We need to resist the urge to do something, regardless of whether or not the proposed action is effective.
~ Bruce Schneier
What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
~ Herman Melville
I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
~ Ian Mcewan
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
~ Levon Helm
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
I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.
~ Gene Simmons
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.
~ Stephen King
And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.
~ Cassandra Clare
The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.
~ David Levithan
He could feel the mounting power around him, familiar yet so alien. He could hear the sound of Othman's feet padding round him on the stone floor, which sounded more like the clopping of hooves. If he surrendered himself, he would be lost, yet the urge to surrender was great
~ Storm Constantine
An urge to laugh fought to express itself in Pharinet's narrow chest. Everna looked so dramatic, all wild eyes, hawk nose, and flailing hair.
~ Storm Constantine
He had an urge to tell Othman about Daniel, how he sensed something unusual and powerful about the boy, how he brought him to this place in the hope of making something happen. The only problem was he didn't know exactly what he was hoping would happen. Although he suspected Othman might be able to advise him on these activities, he shrank from betraying too much.
~ Storm Constantine
Men can sense when a wall is coming down, and they can't help the fact that they have to be there to watch it fall, or better yet, help push it over. It has been argued that the fall of the Berlin Wall had nothing whatsoever to do with the collapse of communism: it was just a weekend project that got out of control—thousands of German guys satisfying their undeniable urge to fix things up.
~ Stuart McLean
He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted . It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away. You don't enjoy the aspirin
~ Stuart Woods
Intuition only tells them what they want, not how to achieve it
~ Susan Choi
Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was the thing I had recognised here: appetite. I recognised it precisely because, in a context like this, it was so unfamiliar. It had forced me to rule out everything else. And there was a second reason for my recognition, which because unprecedented was not recognition at all, but astounding discovery: Martha's face told me. I saw appetite there...
~ Susan Choi
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
~ Graham Nash