The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
The number one piece of advice that you would ever get with working with any large predator is don't run. If you… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
