The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
“Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so.… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
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