Quotes About Urging

Please ejaculate, I silently urged the man, so I can go to sleep. (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.

May I urge you to consider my liver?" asked the animal, "it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months.

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

Thank God I didn't make the mistake of suggesting it to him, thought Cadfael devoutly. There's nothing the young hate and resent so much as to be urged to a good act, when they've already made the virtuous resolve on their own account.

A voice was whispering to her. "Breathe, breathe, breathe," it kept urging. A warm body was over hers, pressed against her. Someone bigger than she was, stronger, a powerful life force. A mouth on hers, warm lips, lips she didn't want to leave hers.

Four rooms on the top floor were reserved for the Rockefeller family, but Senior never took advantage of this privilege, despite Gates's constant urging:

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Except to Mrs. Harker. And just a few minutes ago you were urging me to help her." "But that was before you were asked to help put a stop to the bombings. I confess that your reasoning baffles me." "Not for the first time, Watson. And probably not for the last.

We should be encouraging them, lifting them when they've fallen, celebrating when they succeed, praying when they're struggling, urging them forward. That's what it means to be a people builder.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Both she and Lady L. are very urgent with me to shew them some of the letters in our correspondence; and Miss Grandison says, if that will encourage me to oblige them, they will shew me some of their brother's. — Who would not be tempted by such an exchange? I am more than half-afraid — But surely, in such an heap of stuff as I have written, there is something that I can read to them.

all that I can do is to urge you to put friendship before all things human; for nothing is so conformable to nature and nothing so adaptable to our fortunes whether they be favourable or adverse.

You have trodden paths on which you would never have set foot were it not for my urging - " She broke off and searched his face. "But you need to know that I would follow you barefoot and in my shift and still be the proudest woman in England.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

In return, I tried to do Janet a favor by urging the assembled FOMC members to be more constructive and less strident in their public remarks.

But there's no dictating the directions a heart can take, or how far it will go to follow its urgings, or how many large loves it will embrace. Deeply, tenderly.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Unless the word "just" had an added meaning of "with the help of magical powers," urging me to "just do" something sounded like telling a person consumed by anxiety to "just calm down" or a clinically depressed person to "just lighten up!

Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.