Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will… — Michael Dowd
Itâ€™s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and… — Stephen Fry
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content… — Sigmund Freud
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am… — Greta Garbo
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. — Daniel Goleman
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. — Baltasar Gracian
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them. — Mason Cooley
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to… — Willem Dafoe
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. — Henry Van Dyke
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. — Albert Einstein
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right,… — Jim Elliot
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other… — Havelock Ellis
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. — Ralph Fiennes
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot… — James Fenton
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds… — Mohsin Hamid
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt… — Augustus Hare

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