A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen 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
“First, observe and ponder, and then use silence to speak, and then speak through words, then take action to correct something; make… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
The Holocaust most assuredly challenges any and all faith in God. Faith in humanity. Faith in nature. Faith in the future. I… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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