Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,'… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS, MEMORIES, HUMILIATION, DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.” — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman 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
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. — Terence Copy Share Image
The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst,… — Dannika Dark 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
