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Quotes About Urge

Ma alla fine un desiderio non è altro che un bisogno folle.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.
~ Richie Norton
It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex. Or perhaps it was never His intent to delay marriage in an effort to "become more independent," "enjoy singlehood," and "build our careers.
~ Unknown
no, I thought, only what it makes you do, clawing at the trees, splintering the bark like a tomcat, the blind and violent need of it, a joy, but who would not want to be relieved of it. I pity
~ Peter Carey
Before that night, I'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy.
~ Philip Roth
I worry that I am driven by a] basically vapid urge to be avant-garde and post structural and linguistically calisthenic. This is why I get very spiny when I think someone's suggesting this may be my root motive and character because I'm afraid it might be.
~ David Foster Wallace
The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions
~ David Mamet
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
~ Zadie Smith
It's only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries—not schools or hospitals, libraries—could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve—twin poles of our political mind—were easily and naturally united.
~ Zadie Smith
It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker's depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of "racial health—a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
That desire to compete is almost a physical addiction.
~ Gabe Kapler
Addiction is the result of deep, and unmet needs.
~ Hyrum W. Smith
The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.
~ Idries Shah
El grado de necesidad determina el desarrollo de órganos en el hombre… por lo tanto incrementa tu necesidad.
~ Idries Shah
Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.
~ Colin Wilson
I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader
~ D.J. MacHale
I had the acting bug from a very early age.
~ James Norton
The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.
~ Justin Cartwright
Well, don't just stand there," Philippa urged. "Go and join the group and try to attract his attention." Annabelle gave her a doubtful glance. "Some of those girls look feral. I should hate to get bitten." -Philippa & Annabelle
~ Lisa Kleypas
Unable to help herself, she cupped
~ Jill Shalvis
What surprised him was not the urge. What surprised him was the need to stay.
~ Unknown
I cannot fathom how people stand Blackberry phones. I cannot hold one for a minute without being overwhelmed with the urge to smash it.
~ Unknown
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
~ Oscar Wilde
The belly will not listen to advice.
~ Seneca