"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the…" — Baltasar Gracian

More First Impulse Quotes

This quote is filed under First Impulse Quotes, one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• A first impulse was never a crime. — Pierre Corneille
• We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. — Richard Lugar
• Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions… — Dennis Miller
• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones,… — Robert Nozick
• We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you… — Leo Ornstein
• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it… — Vance Havner
• I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and… — Dylan Thomas
• Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us… — Mohsin Hamid
• Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. — Stephen King
• What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you… — Stephen King
• There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another… — Audrey Niffenegger
• Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of… — Douglas Adams

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