All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he… — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
