Conative Quotes & Sayings

I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that. — Danny Wallace

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are. — Martin Sheen

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange. — Jeffrey Zeldman

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn't done it, and wouldn't had made her his anyway, but you see why he'd have figured it did. Or maybe I saw it anyway, at the time. He was a maniac and a monster, but people don't love like that anymore. Or maybe it's only the maniacs and monsters who do. I don't know. — Peter S. Beagle

Ty?"
"Hmmm."
"It doesn't hurt as much when you hold me."
"Good. Go to sleep. — Nora Roberts

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. — Joichi Ito

I would marry Jell-O Instant Pudding." Georgie — Rainbow Rowell

The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed. — Abraham H. Maslow

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you. — Steven Wright

i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore. — Yeow Kai Chai

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane! — Lauren Kate

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. — John Stuart Mill

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. — Samuel Alexander

the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'. — Karl Pilkington