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 possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need… — Agnes Sanford Copy Share Image
A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The… — Kareem Mortimer Copy Share Image
Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else… — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Copy Share Image
The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have… — David Dunn Copy Share Image
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations,… — Steve Goodier 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
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses.… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst,… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
