Impulse Quotes

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I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she… — J R Ward
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires… — Bertrand Russell
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and… — Annie Dillard
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. — Brenda Ueland
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. — Jean Rhys
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. — John Steinbeck
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people… — Douglas Coupland
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do… — William Butler Yeats
I'm really not good with impulse control. — Richelle Mead
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad… — Hermann Hesse
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… — John Berger
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first… — Stephen King
There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to… — Audrey Niffenegger
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of… — Anne Rice
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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