Impulse Quotes

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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like… — D. H. Lawrence
We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. — Richard Lugar
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The… — Napoleon Hill
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves… — Ronald Reagan
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The… — Woodrow Wilson
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how… — Sue Grafton
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.… — Andrew Solomon
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and… — Charles Baudelaire
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories… — Anna D. Shapiro
Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self to our beloved… — Unknown Author
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I… — Christopher Walken
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. — Fred Ward
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another. — Jeff Bridges
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect… — Al Pacino
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could… — Paul Newman
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can — Cillian Murphy
Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he… — Michael C. Hall
The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on… — Deepak Chopra

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