Impelled Quotes
65 quotes by 63 authors
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To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the…
— Edgar Cayce
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to…
— Susan B. Anthony
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At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.
— Clarence H. Burns
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
— Charles Darwin
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We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going…
— Derek Tangye
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
— James A. Michener
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Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
— Berenice Abbott
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How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and…
— James Monroe
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by…
— Giorgio Vasari
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Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
— John Steinbeck
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person…
— Albert Einstein
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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,…
— Johann Joachim Becher
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We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely…
— Laurence Binyon
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The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to…
— Kent Nerburn
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