No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it — Isidore Isou Copy Share Image
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.” — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness… — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey 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 only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
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
Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
“ Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
