I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
“If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you wanna do something and that little impulse goes off in your brain and says "Ooh, don’t do it!", you gotta… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
There's a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women,… — Zan Perrion Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
