When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears… — Sandra Magsamen Copy Share Image
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. — William James Copy Share Image
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without… — John Newton Copy Share Image
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
