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
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs 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
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
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A little sun, a little rain, A soft wind blowing from the west, And woods and fields are sweet again, And warmth… — Stopford Brooke Copy Share Image
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers… — Michael S. Heiser 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
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
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 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
“I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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
