At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is… — David Seabury 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
“Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly)” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to… — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm a collector of experiences and also very impulsive; I get an impulse to do something and my intuition of telling me… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image