Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. — Tadashi Suzuki Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst,… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses.… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“The persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be… — Henry B. Eyring 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
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
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
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde 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
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
