Impulse Quotes

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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? — George Eliot
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is… — George MacDonald
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for… — H. L. Mencken
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say… — George Eliot
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. — Bertrand Russell
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse… — Thomas Berry
"One impulse from a vernal wood — William Wordsworth
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions… — William James
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind… — Oliver Goldsmith
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse… — Michael Chekhov
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to… — Alexander Clark
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the… — Robert Collier
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. — Robert Collier
Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved… — Deepak Chopra
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans… — Louis J. Camuti
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release,… — Eric Gibbons
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,… — Henry David Thoreau
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which… — Albert Camus

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