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Quotes About Urge

And she knew that this one thing—the urge to boast of one's accomplishments—had betrayed more secrets and destroyed more careers than anything else.
~ Neal Stephenson
For the first time in her life she had the urge to turn around and flee. She knew danger when she saw it, and Ricco Ferraro was pure danger.
~ Christine Feehan
Clay desperately resisted the urge to grab up cameras and start blasting film or digital video. It felt like he had to pee, really badly, from his eyes.
~ Christopher Moore
Have you gotten any other strange feelings in the past few months?" asked Eragon. Only the urge to eat a small red mushroom, but it passed quickly enough.
~ Christopher Paolini
I am gripped by an irresistible urge to kill myself, but I know it's the devil tempting me.
~ Umberto Eco
Bu yüzden kötü bir ÅŸeye gülmek, onunla savaÅŸma isteÄŸi duymamak anlam?na gelir; iyi bir ÅŸeye gülmekse, iyiliÄŸin kendiliÄŸinden yay?lmas?n? saÄŸlayan gücü yads?mak demektir.
~ Umberto Eco
'Tis much easier to suppress a first desire, than to satisfy all those that follow it.
~ la rochefoucauld ii
I can touch you," she marveled, and she couldn't--or at least didn't--resist the urge to further prove it by sliding her palm over the hot-smooth terrain of his chest until she felt as if she were holding his heartbeat in her hand. "As much as you want," he said, and there was a trembling in him, but it wasn't from pain.
~ Laini Taylor
So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.
~ Cassandra Clare
Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
~ Cassandra Clare
The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.
~ Glen Duncan
Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, "But I just looked an hour ago!
~ Gloria Steinem
All people with healthy physical appetites have a sweet tooth somewhere in their heads.
~ Macmillan's Magazine, 1887
If I could make you stay, I would," he shouted. "If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would." He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. "One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.
~ James Baldwin
Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.
~ James Clavell
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
~ Damon Galgut
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.
~ Etel Adnan
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Desire is the very essence of man
~ Baruch Spinoza
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
~ Andrei Voznesensky
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
At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
To purge means to clear or get rid of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition, or to physically remove something completely. Let's develop the urge to purge and remove anything that could be dragging you backward so you can be free to move forward.
~ Terri Savelle Foy
This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks,Cut stems struggling to put down feet,What saint strained so much,Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life?
~ Theodore Roethke