It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all… — Mike White Copy Share Image
If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices. — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. — Josh Pais Copy Share Image
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES, EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION. THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS THAT IS… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
