“So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?” He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses. — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem 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
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to… — Haroon Moghul 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 believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness… — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Curb impulse purchases by giving yourself a cooling-off period: instead of buying something immediately, wait a few days and see if you… — Francine Jay Copy Share Image
The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
