Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
The Holocaust most assuredly challenges any and all faith in God. Faith in humanity. Faith in nature. Faith in the future. I… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For some roles, like when I was doing Bent, that was harder and I didn't find that helpful because I was so… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most… — Sarah Miles Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse. — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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