Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. Robertson Davies
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.Lou Brock
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
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. Joe Henderson
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.Confucius
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. Arthur Ashe
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures. Jacqueline Carey
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger. Bart Starr