Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 628 authors

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this… — Jandy Nelson
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom
I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events. — Ariel Pink
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. — Terence
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. — George Eliot
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he… — Daniel Bell
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul,… — Frank Harris
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. — George Pierce Baker
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than… — Peter Cooper
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or… — John Desmond Bernal
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil,… — John Hanning Speke
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men… — Henry Villard
Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It… — Angela Merkel
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. — Brenda Ueland
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of… — Richard Wright
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the… — Andrew Mason
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. — Jon Meacham
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or… — Douglas Fairbanks

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