Impulse Quotes · Page 38

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,…

— Joan Didion

That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.

— Sanford Meisner

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

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

— Fred Ward

All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most…

— Sarah Miles

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…

— Plutarch

A first impulse was never a crime.

— Pierre Corneille

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

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the…

— Justin Winsor

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To…

— Judith Herrin

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

— Khaled Hosseini

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness…

— Emile Souvestre

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

— Zola Jesus

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

— David Brooks

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

— Cillian Murphy

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

— Harriet Monroe

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude…

— Peter Brook

However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be…

— George Pattison

I want the Wallwalker in the back of consumers' minds, but not actively thought about. When it returns, they'll react, 'Oh, there…

— Ken Hakuta

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

— Rabindranath Tagore

And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I…

— Stephenie Meyer

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger