Impulse Quotes

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Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions… — George Eliot
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no… — George Saunders
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage… — David O. McKay
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we donâ€™t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each… — Marvin J. Ashton
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the… — Megan Whalen Turner
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.… — Joe Hill
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men… — Bertrand Russell
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse… — James A. Baldwin
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next.… — Douglas Adams
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates
Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has… — Thomas Merton
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or… — Jerzy Kosinski
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and… — Hillary Clinton
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,… — C.S. Lewis
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton

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