Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness 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
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse -… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The Icarian Impulse With fruit of the knowledge tree, We took a bite from our world, Gaining serpent's destructive kiss, Malicious shortcuts… — Stewart Stafford 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
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland… — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“I picked it up, stared at it, and thought: Why am I the one bending and lifting while he sits downstairs complaining… — Belinda Kelderhouse 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
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
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