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Quotes About Urge

The fragile ego of a poor leader can not resist the urge to tug at the delicate fabric of good order and disipline thus unraveling their own true nature.
~ Donavan Nelson Butler
It's a natural human impulse
~ Jennifer Ackerman
the hunger that hides in our hearts is the one that kills us" ~Isabelle, Step sister
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It's the hunger in our hearts that kills us.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
All I knew was that Skye had been right. Jameson was hungry. And so am I.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Finch: Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto Violet: I don't know that what means Finch: It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.
~ Jennifer Niven
Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.
~ Jennifer Niven
Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.
~ Emma Donoghue
The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.
~ Eric Hoffer
desire is a beast that must be fed!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
~ Amy Hempel
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
~ Chris Coleman
I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.
~ Eddie Trunk
The experience delivered me into the central project of my adult life as a writer, which is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.
~ Robert Atwan
Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.
~ Robert Boyers
Not only was he appealing to the urge prevalent in the party to concentrate attention and effort on the tasks of Soviet development, he was hinting that a fully socialist economy could be created in a comparatively short time.
~ Robert C. Tucker
no es la posesión sino el deseo lo que impulsa en secreto a la gente.
~ Robert Greene
When we consider further the social and psychological roots of the collective urge to kill the world, we are likely to see more of ourselves in it and to begin to think of such groups as something of a dark cultural underground of our own society. We are also likely to discover that whatever renders our society more decent and more inclusive in its benefits is likely to undermine the totalistic impulse to destroy everything.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
I want the drumstick! I want the drumstick!
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Like most real writers, she was a stronger person in her books than in her life. But she had a constant urge to re-create the women of her childhood, the faith she had in their comforting omniscience.
~ Laura Thompson
Tell that to the BTK killer," I said. "He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.
~ Lawrence Block
In other words, it is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning ? but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things. Love is akin to transcendence; it is but another name for creative drive and as such is fraught with risks, as all creation is never sure where it is going to end.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.
~ Alan Hollinghurst