Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. — Statius Copy Share Image
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out. — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act,… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves... — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Rhoda Morgenstern gave a wonderful impetus and propulsion to my career. — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“Impetus Always Remember..Whatever You're Doing By Heart,It Is Never Too Late..!!” — Nastazia Ken Copy Share Image
“Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus… — Batya Gur Copy Share Image
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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