Quotes About Urge

At the age of nineteen, when his mother brought home the pin-up pictures, she inadvertently activated his seething fantasies. Mhlengwa felt the urge to have sex but lacked the social skills to form a relationship. He was also a very angry young man.

The motive is settled deep within the unconscious psyche, and the serial killer is unaware of this. By 'irresistible compulsion' I do not mean that serial killers have absolutely no power over the urge to kill. Many of them experience the urge as an external force taking control of their own will and forcing them to commit murder, a force they perceive they cannot resist.

Another force motivates us, and it is more primitive and more powerful than the urge to create: the force of entropy. This too is a survival mechanism built into our genes by evolution. It gives us pleasure when we are comfortable, when we relax, when we can get away with feeling good without expending energy.

Please don't confuse random with spontaneous. Spontaneous rocks. It emerges from a field of probabilities that you control, maintaining choice and meaning. It involves instinct and urge, hunches and feelings, imagination and belief. Random implies the opposite. Empty and pointless. Maybe or maybe not. Chance and luck.

I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.

Unas is lord of seed who takes wives from their husbands, Whenever Unas wishes, as his heart urges. Utterance 317 Entrance to the Antechamber, West Wall The king appears as the crocodile-god Sobk

Males are simple creatures. If we can't f**k it, we want to kill it.

Creative Copying: He also returned to his earlier practice of copying other artists' works. Apart from the fact that it could be done indoors, copying was a way of learning, and although he was now a great master (without fully recognizing the fact), Van Gogh's urge to learn remained very strong.

Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

He just wanted to run—to do something for nothing.

Do I listen to God singing the melody and then sing in harmony with Him or do I sing my own melody and urge Him to harmonize with me?

His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum." "'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance. She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible.

But Jesus, people need, you know? I know that. They need things and they don't know why, they just need them.

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.

Every morning he would go to sleep telling himself that he had had enough, that there would be no more of it, and every afternoon he would wake up with the same desire, the same irresistible urge to crawl back into the car. He wanted that solitude again, that nightlong rush through the emptiness, that rumbling of the road along his skin.

Similarly, Thompson urges his readers to not allow the aggressive words and manner of an adversary to have their intended harmful effect.

I'm talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.

Everywhere in Balzac desire is an urge to find out, to know (Freud's epistemophilia), which is to say that the drive to know is itself sexualized.

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.