Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action,… — Seth Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me… — Anna D. Shapiro Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. — Terence Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
