Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses. — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl 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
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance… — Stephen King 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
“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the… — Armin Mohler Copy Share Image
My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek,… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. — John Arlott Copy Share Image
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
