Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. — Rabindranath Tagore
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need… — Dylan Thomas
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of… — Gore Vidal
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and… — Elie Wiesel
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what… — Philip Pullman
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And… — James K. Morrow
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, thereâ€™s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it… — John F. Kennedy
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their… — Bill Bryson
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to… — Pope Benedict XVI
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of… — June Jordan
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess. — John Steinbeck

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