Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an… — Evelyn Underhill
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,… — Kay Hooper
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during… — Albert Einstein
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to… — Mark Twain
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who… — Erwin McManus
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We… — Ralph Washington Sockman
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love… — Abraham Maslow
Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in… — Daniel Odier
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In… — Deepak Chopra
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will… — Unknown Author
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot… — Jamake Highwater
Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second. — Deepak Chopra
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. — John Steinbeck
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to… — Thomas Hodgskin
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all… — Richard M. Weaver
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in… — Bertolt Brecht
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. — Unknown Author

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