The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. From LearnThat.org. [Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist. Man for Himself, ch. 3 (1947).]
Your country's calls, your excitement, honour and glory, again impel, and undauntedly and cheerfully you expose that life which the night before you fancied was of value. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
An abyss that impel those hopelorn over the precipice. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Might an involuntary impulse impel one to be malicious?. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
What are the motives which impel persons to buy and use patent medicines?. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
There's often a silver lining after illness strikes, one that can impel change. From Wordnik.com. [Adele Scheele: How to Take Control of Your Job When You Get Really Sick] Reference
Morgan was not moved by a curiosity great enough to impel him to make the round. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
We know of no law by which love would impel the Creator to create all beings alike. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It will only impel you to do the opposite and the opposite would be distressing to us both. From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Explanation] Reference
I have just referred to the incentive that we have to impel us to a world-wide Evangelization. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
There is no definite incentive urged to impel men to sustained and eager missionary enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The ship could not, however, be guided, but must go wherever the winds and waves chose to impel her. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
If a leaper were to impel himself horizontally only, he would, in the shortest leap, fall below a level. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
A stronger economy -- and a need for experienced workers -- may impel companies to create new types of jobs. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Mature Worker' Glut] Reference
But there was still wanting the motive power which should impel the machine and give it energy and momentum. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A just regard for our own interests would impel us to side with her, should she be placed in serious danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Otherwise it must possess a bulk which its tiny wings would be powerless to impel against the opposing breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The influences of instinct and habit impel him to activity, and he makes a definite choice to leave the house. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
It was not strong enough to impel her to run after those who had just disappeared and apologize for her fault. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
The purchase of either one tends to impel the gardener to also buy something to cut and/or grind compost materials. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
How vain are the hopes with which we build castles in the air; how strange the motives that impel us to ill-advised acts. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Somewhere ahead lie the further great changes that will eventually impel acceptance of the principle of world government itself. From Wordnik.com. [Century of Light] Reference
The theory was that electoral dynamics impel politicians to spend in excess of revenues, piling up deficits that cause inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Inflation Inflated] Reference
Hysteria in the mother may develop insanity in the child, while drunkenness in the father may impel epilepsy, or mania, in the son. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
We've managed to create iron-clad itineraries through which we impel our kids-no hang time-but a gaping hole in the heart of it all. From Wordnik.com. ['Vacation Almost Killed Me'] Reference
Lou Holtz, the former football catch turned ESPN analyst, indicated that this shortage of failure might impel him to run for Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Balance] Reference
That yet greater suffering and disillusionment will be required to impel humanity to this great leap forward appears, alas, equally clear. From Wordnik.com. [Century of Light] Reference
Loyalty, perhaps, might induce them to fight for their King; but where was the Stake to impel them to fight for a Country in which they had no. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland] Reference
We were again on board the ship, and in the power of the enraged mutineers, about to suffer whatever their vengeance might impel them to inflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Some measure of change can occur as they draw on the deepest resources of their own Scriptures and faith, as these impel efforts to seek peace among people and peoples. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road To Reconciliation] Reference
They may impel us to instinctive acts of goodness, Dawkins writes, even when it seems counterproductive to our own interests -- say, by risking our life to save someone else. From Wordnik.com. [The New Naysayers] Reference
All men are endowed by their Creator with a sense of justice, in order to impel them to secure its claims, and throw the shield of its protection around the weak and oppressed. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
That night the king stationed a hundred sentinels around the hero's house to restrain him, lest his rash bravery should impel him to go off alone in search of the infidel horde. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Though the co-operation of citizens is now voluntary instead of compulsory; yet the social forces impel them to achieve social ends while apparently achieving only their own ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
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