I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis 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
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no… — Deepak Chopra 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
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
