Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius Copy Share Image
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. — John Arlott Copy Share Image
Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana 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
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
Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Curb impulse purchases by giving yourself a cooling-off period: instead of buying something immediately, wait a few days and see if you… — Francine Jay Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger 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
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey 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
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
