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Quotes About Urge

He ground his teeth together, the torture of it almost more than he could bear. The urge to pull her to him was overwhelming, but to do that would cost him dearly, for no doubt she would run out the door, damning him with every step. This was Lorelei, the artist, and she didn't see him as a man. Right now, he was about as human as the ridiculous fruit she'd painted in the past. And if he played along with her wants, perhaps she'd let him show her his...banana.
~ Kinley MacGregor
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
There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence to the world in a way that would surpass the ages, creating some sort of immortality. For all Karigan knew, the more ancient carvings were just another incarnation of such an urge.
~ Kristen Britain
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.
~ Carson McCullers
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
~ Georgette Heyer
I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.
~ Geraldine Brooks
It is our business to go as we are impelled.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.
~ Ogden Nash
Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
~ Anonymous
The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget.
~ William Osier
The finer impulse of our nature.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. These nicknames are pissing me off. But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is. It's my damn name. And now I have to pee. It's like my bladder has to prove something. Pee at the bank. Consider it a deposit.
~ J.D. Robb
Then again, the urge to commit matricide was stressful as shit-when you couldn't act on it.
~ J.R. Ward
Humans + alcohol x urge to kill=body count. Not what he or his business interests needed.
~ J.R. Ward
Ants under the skin. As Rhage transferred his weight from one shitkicker to the other, he felt like his bloodstream had come to a soft boil and the bubbles were tickling the underside of every fucking square inch of his flesh.
~ J.R. Ward
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
~ Jack London
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
~ Jack London
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.
~ Patanjali
experience even the most intense craving without pushing it away or acting on it. Instead of hating her experience or losing herself in a swirl of mental activity, Sarah was saying yes to the feelings of urgency and tension and fear. Instead of trying to satisfy her craving, she was simply letting it express itself and move through her.
~ Tara Brach
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.
~ Ted Chiang
And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.
~ Ted Kerasote
Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.
~ Neal Stephenson