Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 629 authors

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse… — Jane Austen
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and… — Robert Benchley
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler
I've always had this impulse to be destructive. — Russell Brand
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and… — Richard Branson
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part… — Jane Campion
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That… — William J. Clinton
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. — Susan B. Anthony
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you… — Joan Didion
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. — Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our… — Alexander Hamilton
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text.… — David Lloyd-Jones
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself — H. L. Mencken
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.'… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

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