Quotes about Impulse

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. Votes: 4

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Votes: 4

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. Votes: 4

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. Votes: 4

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. Votes: 4

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is. Votes: 3

Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network. Votes: 3

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. Votes: 3

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. Votes: 3

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. Votes: 3

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. Votes: 3

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did. Votes: 3

"One impulse from a vernal wood Votes: 2

I've always had this impulse to be destructive. Votes: 2

What persons are by starts they are by nature. Votes: 2

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Votes: 2

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Votes: 2

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. Votes: 2

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Votes: 2

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Votes: 2

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them. Votes: 2

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. Votes: 2

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Votes: 2

Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. Votes: 2

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Votes: 2

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. Votes: 2

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. Votes: 2

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Votes: 2

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. Votes: 2

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Votes: 2

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. Votes: 2

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. Votes: 2

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. Votes: 2

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Votes: 2

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. Votes: 2

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. Votes: 2

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. Votes: 2

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Votes: 2

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Votes: 2

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. Votes: 2

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Votes: 2

I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Votes: 2

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. Votes: 2

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. Votes: 2

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. Votes: 2

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Votes: 2

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. Votes: 2

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed. Votes: 2

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars. Votes: 2

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings. Votes: 2

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction. Votes: 2

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. Votes: 2

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. Votes: 2

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Votes: 2

Never resist a generous impulse. Votes: 0

Malice remains its animating impulse. Votes: 0

A lonely impulse of delight Votes: 0

A lonely impulse of delight Votes: 0

I have a suicide impulse. Votes: 0

There is no shame in impulse. Votes: 0

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. Votes: 0

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse Votes: 0

A first impulse was never a crime. Votes: 0

I'm really not good with impulse control. Votes: 0

Everyone has the impulse to be elite. Votes: 0

Revision is a good impulse to have. Votes: 0

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse. Votes: 0

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. Votes: 0

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. Votes: 0

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. Votes: 0

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason Votes: 0

When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT. Votes: 0

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Votes: 0

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. Votes: 0

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. Votes: 0

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. Votes: 0

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. Votes: 0

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse. Votes: 0

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business. Votes: 0

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. Votes: 0

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. Votes: 0

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. Votes: 0

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. Votes: 0

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. Votes: 0

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. Votes: 0

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Votes: 0

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. Votes: 0

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. Votes: 0

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty. Votes: 0

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse. Votes: 0

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. Votes: 0

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse. Votes: 0

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. Votes: 0

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list. Votes: 0

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. Votes: 0

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse. Votes: 0

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. Votes: 0

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. Votes: 0

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Votes: 0

That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. Votes: 0

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. Votes: 0

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. Votes: 0

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. Votes: 0

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Votes: 0

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. Votes: 0

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. Votes: 0

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. Votes: 0

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. Votes: 0

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. Votes: 0

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish. Votes: 0

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. Votes: 0

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. Votes: 0

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. Votes: 0

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. Votes: 0

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Votes: 0

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. Votes: 0

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. Votes: 0

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. Votes: 0

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! Votes: 0

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Votes: 0

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events. Votes: 0

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. Votes: 0

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. Votes: 0

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. Votes: 0

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Votes: 0

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. Votes: 0

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself Votes: 0

The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me. Votes: 0

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. Votes: 0

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action. Votes: 0

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And Votes: 0

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. Votes: 0

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. Votes: 0

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. Votes: 0

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse Votes: 0

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. Votes: 0

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Votes: 0

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. Votes: 0

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse Votes: 0

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. Votes: 0

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. Votes: 0

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine. Votes: 0

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. Votes: 0

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Votes: 0

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. Votes: 0

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. Votes: 0

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. Votes: 0

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. Votes: 0

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. Votes: 0

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can Votes: 0

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. Votes: 0

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? Votes: 0

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Votes: 0

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. Votes: 0

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. Votes: 0

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. Votes: 0

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. Votes: 0

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Votes: 0

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. Votes: 0

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. Votes: 0

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . . Votes: 0

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. Votes: 0

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality. Votes: 0

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. Votes: 0

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. Votes: 0

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse. Votes: 0

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. Votes: 0

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Votes: 0

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. Votes: 0

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Votes: 0

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. Votes: 0

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. Votes: 0

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. Votes: 0

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. Votes: 0

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. Votes: 0

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! Votes: 0

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. Votes: 0

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. Votes: 0

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. Votes: 0

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. Votes: 0

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. Votes: 0

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control. Votes: 0

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. Votes: 0

I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. Votes: 0

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. Votes: 0

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. Votes: 0

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. Votes: 0

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. Votes: 0

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it Votes: 0

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire. Votes: 0

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. Votes: 0

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. Votes: 0

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. Votes: 0

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. Votes: 0

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. Votes: 0

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. Votes: 0

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. Votes: 0

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. Votes: 0

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. Votes: 0

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. Votes: 0

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him. Votes: 0

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. Votes: 0

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Votes: 0

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community Votes: 0

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer. Votes: 0

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse. Votes: 0

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. Votes: 0

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction. Votes: 0

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other. Votes: 0

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. Votes: 0

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. Votes: 0

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. Votes: 0

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. Votes: 0

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. Votes: 0

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. Votes: 0

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. Votes: 0

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. Votes: 0

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. Votes: 0

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. Votes: 0

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times? Votes: 0

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void. Votes: 0

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is. Votes: 0

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Votes: 0

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. Votes: 0

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise. Votes: 0

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. Votes: 0

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. Votes: 0

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. Votes: 0

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. Votes: 0

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Votes: 0

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. Votes: 0

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. Votes: 0

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. Votes: 0

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. Votes: 0

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! Votes: 0

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? Votes: 0

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. Votes: 0

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. Votes: 0

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse. Votes: 0

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? Votes: 0

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. Votes: 0

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Votes: 0

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see. Votes: 0

Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot. Votes: 0

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others Votes: 0

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist Votes: 0

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. Votes: 0

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. Votes: 0

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat. Votes: 0

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create. Votes: 0

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind. Votes: 0

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. Votes: 0

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. Votes: 0

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. Votes: 0

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. Votes: 0

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches. Votes: 0

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. Votes: 0

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing. Votes: 0

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. Votes: 0

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. Votes: 0

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. Votes: 0

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that. Votes: 0

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline. Votes: 0

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Votes: 0

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it. Votes: 0

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy. Votes: 0

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. Votes: 0

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. Votes: 0

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. Votes: 0

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. Votes: 0

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes. Votes: 0

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality. Votes: 0

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse. Votes: 0

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! Votes: 0

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. Votes: 0

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make. Votes: 0

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do. Votes: 0

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market. Votes: 0

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it. Votes: 0

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift. Votes: 0

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse. Votes: 0

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. Votes: 0

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Votes: 0

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. Votes: 0

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. Votes: 0

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. Votes: 0

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. Votes: 0

I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are. Votes: 0

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal. Votes: 0

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. Votes: 0

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God. Votes: 0

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Votes: 0

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. Votes: 0

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing. Votes: 0

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse. Votes: 0

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. Votes: 0

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? Votes: 0

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. Votes: 0

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them. Votes: 0

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372 Votes: 0

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them. Votes: 0

People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse. Votes: 0

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power. Votes: 0

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent. Votes: 0

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary. Votes: 0

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. Votes: 0

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. Votes: 0

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun. Votes: 0

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand. Votes: 0

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. Votes: 0

Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing! Votes: 0

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. Votes: 0

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person. Votes: 0

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. Votes: 0

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse. Votes: 0

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium Votes: 0

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested. Votes: 0

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered. Votes: 0

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Votes: 0

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead. Votes: 0

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement. Votes: 0

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. Votes: 0

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship. Votes: 0

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake. Votes: 0

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life. Votes: 0

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. Votes: 0

Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me? Votes: 0

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. Votes: 0

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Votes: 0

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Votes: 0

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two! Votes: 0

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination. Votes: 0

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. Votes: 0

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors. Votes: 0

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. Votes: 0

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. Votes: 0

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you. Votes: 0

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church. Votes: 0

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it. Votes: 0

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. Votes: 0

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. Votes: 0

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. Votes: 0

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others. Votes: 0

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ. Votes: 0

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on. Votes: 0

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. Votes: 0

I hate everything about traveling but I love to explore new locations so I wish I could snap and arrive somewhere whenever the need or impulse would arise. Votes: 0

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. Votes: 0

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself. Votes: 0

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness. Votes: 0

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor. Votes: 0

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction. Votes: 0

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness. Votes: 0

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder. Votes: 0

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me. Votes: 0

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. Votes: 0

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love. Votes: 0

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good. Votes: 0

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer. Votes: 0

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness. Votes: 0

At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot externalize by rational means. Votes: 0

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister. Votes: 0

I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills. Votes: 0

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed. Votes: 0

A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving. Votes: 0

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. Votes: 0

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Votes: 0

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful. Votes: 0

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated. Votes: 0

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols. Votes: 0

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity. Votes: 0

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. Votes: 0

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse. Votes: 0

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog. Votes: 0

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race. Votes: 0

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 0

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 0

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. Votes: 0

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy. Votes: 0

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision. Votes: 0

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. Votes: 0

The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act. Votes: 0

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart. Votes: 0

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. Votes: 0

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? Votes: 0

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own. Votes: 0

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth. Votes: 0

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases. Votes: 0

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. Votes: 0

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception. Votes: 0

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest. Votes: 0

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. Votes: 0

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression. Votes: 0

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse. Votes: 0

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. Votes: 0

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. Votes: 0

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. Votes: 0

O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me. Votes: 0

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance. Votes: 0

O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me." Votes: 0

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation. Votes: 0

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists. Votes: 0

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either. Votes: 0

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.' Votes: 0

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual. Votes: 0

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power. Votes: 0

I'm an impulse buyer. There are so many great things online! Having two kids, I feel like that's an easy, fun way to shop without letting it take up your entire day. Votes: 0

I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice. Votes: 0

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it. Votes: 0

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first. Votes: 0

I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human. Votes: 0

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man. Votes: 0

The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion. Votes: 0

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation. Votes: 0

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart. Votes: 0

I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying. Votes: 0

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. Votes: 0

The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer. Votes: 0

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Votes: 0

Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in man to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within. Votes: 0

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship. Votes: 0

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. Votes: 0

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects. Votes: 0

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun. Votes: 0

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. Votes: 0

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give. Votes: 0

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse. Votes: 0

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. Votes: 0

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth. Votes: 0

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy. Votes: 0

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual Votes: 0

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience. Votes: 0

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough. Votes: 0

I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary. Votes: 0

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop. Votes: 0

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again. Votes: 0

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. Votes: 0

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. Votes: 0

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. Votes: 0

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. Votes: 0

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture. Votes: 0

To me, Sri Chinmoy is a source of higher power and an uplifting example of right attitude. He understands the human impulse to transcend one's present limited state of being, and his life exemplifies this. Votes: 0

The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command. Votes: 0

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse. Votes: 0

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free. Votes: 0

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. Votes: 0

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man. Votes: 0

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. Votes: 0