#urge

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say. ↗

— Patty Duke

#die #doctor #doctors #dramatic #had

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#drawn #even #got #health #i

Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life. ↗

— John Irving

#junk-food #newspapers #politics #food

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#character #clinton #distinguished #had #history

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. ↗

— David Bohm

#attempt #confronting #crises #essence #extremely

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#anti-semitism #concluded #decades #exists #holocaust

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. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#almost #basic #believe #desire #equally

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#economy #environment #good #i #locks