Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz 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
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both.… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
