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Quotes About Urge

You cannot regulate desire.
~ Tom Holland
We all seem to know the dilemma of speaking within authorized boundaries, and yet the urge to orientalize the Oriental and to africanize the African continues to lurk behind many Westerners' wellintended attempts to promote better understanding of cultural difference.
~ Trinh T. Minh-ha
One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
~ Patrick O'Brian
But don't we all like to be overpowered, one time or another.
~ Paul Bowles
When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.
~ Unknown
The message here is that the only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, learn to stay with the itch and urge of shenpa, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule our lives, and the patterns that we consider unhelpful don't keep getting stronger as the days and months and years go by.
~ Pema Chodron
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Tempt not a desperate man
~ William Shakespeare
If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful letters to your friends, the most lucid reports to your superiors, you will never produce a poem or a play or a story. You may make a journalist but you will never make an author.
~ Unknown
Then, born again from her womb, it rose again, beseeching in a swelling wave, that urge to kill.
~ Clarice Lispector
There is/no reasoning with need.
~ Claudia Rankine
Chom. Don't you have an urge to see justice done?" "It's not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.
~ Unknown
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
~ Heywood Broun
I urge you: Come be angry at a nearer distance.
~ Holly Black
Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you. Come be angry at a nearer distance.
~ Holly Black
Jude, Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you. Come be angry at a nearer distance.
~ Holly Black
He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face.
~ Liane Moriarty
He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face. This
~ Liane Moriarty
He experienced a strange reaction to the sight, a nearly overwhelming urge to go over to her, shove her back on the bed, and take her without preliminaries. To dominate her, and force her to admit his ownership.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Was this what the human reproductive urge was like, a pointless and powerful desire to replicate wonderful, irreplaceable me, even when the me in question was a monster who truly had no right to live among humans? That would certainly explain how a great many of the monumentally unpleasant cretins I encountered every day came to be.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Squared away, oh yes, a completely Harry idea of how life is lived, with hospital corners and polished shoes. And even then I knew; needing to kill something every now and then would pretty much sooner or later get in the way of being squared away.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I have such an anger and an urge to charge at the sky, to call the wind a liar for never showing itself. An urge to scream at the two who allowed my birth. Cries for help to anyone who will hear them. To scream into the street that there is a lack of miracles in Mother Nature herself. Her divinity is a lie. In
~ Jennifer Lynch
He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.
~ Jerry Spinelli
We want what we want
~ Jess Walter