Impulse Quotes

A first impulse was never a crime.

— Pierre Corneille

I have a suicide impulse.

— Hal Holbrook

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

— Laurence Sterne

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

— Mason Cooley

“is to teach her impulse control in her early”

— John Medina

There is no shame in impulse.

— Douglas Coupland

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

— Jack Levine

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

— Terence

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

— Ambrose Bierce

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

— Elon Musk

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

— Marilynne Robinson

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

— George Santayana

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

— Ariel Pink

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

— William James

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

— Patricia Churchland

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

— William E. Woodward

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the…

— Zoe Kazan

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

— John Piper

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like…

— Henry James

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing…

— Gary Zukav

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how…

— Victoria Wilson

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition…

— George Gershwin

The number one piece of advice that you would ever get with working with any large predator is don't run. If you…

— Steve Backshall

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and…

— Caroline Knapp

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's…

— Danny Elfman

I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag…

— Lykke Li

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the…

— Alexander Hamilton

For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music…

— Kwame Dawes

It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to…

— Haroon Moghul

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

— George Eliot

In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…

— Hari Kunzru

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other…

— Jonah Lehrer

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and…

— Vincent Van Gogh