Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I'm an impulse buyer. There are so many great things online! Having two kids, I feel like that's an easy, fun way… — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish. — James Salter Copy Share Image
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
