Quotes of: Prompted Keyword

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Leonardo da Vinci

Oh, I am a prompt person!

Josh Hutcherson

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Charles Simmons

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Jack London

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Mark Stevens

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Bertrand Russell

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

Nina Conti

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Eric Hoffer

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Harold E. Varmus

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

Adam Schiff

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Stephen Gardiner

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Education of a Wandering Man

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

The Art of Acting

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

Beyond The Devil's Teeth

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Coventry Patmore

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

Maurice Saatchi