Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual… — Marina Warner
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. — Sam Tanenhaus
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that… — Rudolf Otto
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. — Dennis Potter
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly.… — William Stafford
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and… — Unknown Author
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring,… — Alfred Bunn
The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself… — David Dunn
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which… — Polykarp Kusch
The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different… — Bill Roorbach
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. — Shoshana Zuboff
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. — Lara St. John
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a… — Dennis Miller
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on… — Bill Griffith
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill
You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the… — George Ayittey
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always… — Eva Zeisel
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices. — Kelly McGonigal
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their… — Elias Lyman Magoon
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up… — Johan Huizinga
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because… — John Desmond Bernal
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. — Max Nordau
Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for… — Arthur Rubinstein

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