The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
