Top 181 Urge Quotes

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you’ve yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company – it’s a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what’s roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this… this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

I’d say I’m the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

We’ve progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven’t satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There’s a moment with acting when you’re in the groove, and you and what you’re trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I’m really happy it can happen to me.

Of course I was excited to be working opposite Irrfan, but I didn’t feel the urge to scream ‘Oh my god!’ or behave like a fan-girl. If he’s an actor then so am I. Having said this, he is an incredible actor and has tremendous screen presence.

Impulse decisions can often be our downfall when it comes to sticking to good habits. Do something to buy yourself some time when you’re experiencing those ‘moments’ of weakness, and often, the urge will pass. If you keep the cookies in a box in the basement, you might find it’s not worth the effort to go get them.

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

There’s a huge part of me that’s thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

Everything in my life has come from an urge to share. Everything I’ve learned is from friends, family and copying.

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they’re good people. So if they’re in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, ‘Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.’

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you’re left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.

Yes, I express myself through tweets and other media. But it’s just because I love expressing myself; it’s a non-stop urge in me.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

I think to many people the term ‘activist film’ implies a film with a single point of view – something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue – sort of the film equivalent of a rally. ‘If a Tree Falls’ is not that kind of film.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I’d urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I’d work things out and I’d definitely stay put.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

If you cut a painter’s hands off, he’d still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council’s call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

I think I’m competitive. Competition fuels me. The urge to win. I want to win; I want the ball in my hands when it really counts. I want to be the best I can be. I want to come in every day and do everything I can to be the best that I can.

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.

On behalf of the entire cast, I urge the audience to please watch ‘Seven.’ It is a mass entertainer and thriller. You will see me in a new light in this one.

Despite offers, I have never felt the urge to try to make it in Hollywood.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi’s peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi’s peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don’t care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don’t want. I’d be happy to take it off them.

I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.

A few years back, I had this urge to be on the go all the time. It’s important to find a balance, though. Now my motto is, do the work, but recharge, too!

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people – I shouldn’t say so many, a handful of people – said I couldn’t do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

If I’m walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don’t know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who’s drowning?

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human – the good, the bad, and the ugly!