Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby 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
I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. — William James Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
