Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 628 authors

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?… — Richard Dawkins
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels… — Vincent Van Gogh
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… — Virginia Woolf
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 — Hilary Mantel
If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half… — Ann Aguirre
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. — David Levithan
Planning is not my friend. Impulse is. — Kiersten White
In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole lifeâ€”or at least ever since heâ€™d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at… — J R Ward
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral… — Margaret Thatcher
Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse — Kelley Armstrong
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the… — Matthew Quick
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible… — Blaise Cendrars
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. — Cassandra Clare
The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they… — Benjamin Hoff
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give… — Madeleine L'Engle
I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from… — Dorothy Allison
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. — Marilynne Robinson
I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at… — Cassandra Clare
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream… — Susan Sontag

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