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Quotes About Urge

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
~ E. Stanley Jones
It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'
~ June Squibb
Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.
~ Stephen King
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
~ Gyorgy Lukacs
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
~ John Green
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
~ Charles Yost
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.
~ Carl Sandburg
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.
~ Will Self
Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
~ David Brooks
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
~ David Lodge
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.
~ Vincent de Paul
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
~ Kenneth Myers
Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
~ Albert Bushnell Hart
If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.
~ Robert Ringer
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
~ Sandra Cisneros
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
~ David Brooks
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
to pee or not to pee that is the question
~ lucy fieldinghouse
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
~ Alexander Pushkin