Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 615 authors

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours… — Agnes Repplier
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone… — Edgar Allan Poe
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us… — Joe Greene
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had… — Henry James
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which… — Elizabeth Janeway
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a… — Mary McCarthy
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic… — Karl Abraham
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial… — Christopher McDougall
Impulses are hard to come by these days. — Jack Levine
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It… — James Laughlin
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and… — George Bernard Shaw
The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can… — Benjamin Walker
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. — Mike White
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality. — Frederick Lenz

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