Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one… — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm such an impulse buyer. I once went into a pet store for dog food and left with a fish tank and… — Colton Underwood Copy Share Image
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth… — Bill Roorbach Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
When I receive a box of my books, my impulse is to hide rather than display them. It always makes me very… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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
The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image