Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
When I receive a box of my books, my impulse is to hide rather than display them. It always makes me very… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan 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 successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth… — Bill Roorbach Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men… — Marlon Brando 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
You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level.… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky.… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Valentino Garavani is never really shown himself as anything other than this gracious diplomat of the dolce vita. That's his preferred look.… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard… — William Fichtner 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
Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client.… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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