All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler 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
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
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level.… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
