Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And… — Philip Roth
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the… — Philip Pullman
Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other.… — John Flanagan
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What is stronger in us â€” passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just… — Charlaine Harris
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli
A person whose desires and impulses are his ownâ€”are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own… — John Stuart Mill
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we… — Christopher McDougall
Perhaps,â€ murmured his lordship, â€œI yielded to a compassionate impulse.â€ â€œA what?â€ gasped his best friend. â€œOh, did you think I never did so?â€ said… — Georgette Heyer
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses,… — Henry Miller
Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this… — Sloane Crosley
The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a… — Oliver Sacks
Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences… — Brian Weiss
A lonely impulse of delight — William Butler Yeats
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… — Thomas Hardy
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one… — P.G. Wodehouse

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