Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana 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 Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action,… — Seth Copy Share Image
Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I… — Clive James 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
Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone 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
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. — William James Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be liked. It's a basic human impulse for some of you, and that explains the turn-on-a-dime hypocrisy from people… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
