Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.” — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image