Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he… — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is… — G. Stanley Hall 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
(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 believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is… — Andrew Cohen 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
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette;… — Henry James 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
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll… — Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann 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
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts… — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey 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
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
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 whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
