Impulses Quotes

287 Impulses quotes by 240 unique authors

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart… — Edgar Allan Poe
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle.… — Unknown Author
We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing… — Cheryl Strayed
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels… — Vincent Van Gogh
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… — Virginia Woolf
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 — Hilary Mantel
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. — David Levithan
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the… — Matthew Quick
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible… — Blaise Cendrars
The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they… — Benjamin Hoff
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give… — Madeleine L'Engle
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for… — H. L. Mencken
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say… — George Eliot
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release,… — Eric Gibbons
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley
Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation… — Ashwin Sanghi
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,… — Diane Ackerman
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.… — Paul Theroux
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and… — Romy Schneider
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without… — Clifford Ross
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving… — Gordon W. Allport
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak… — Eleanor Catton
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of… — Russell Smith
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. — Virginia Postrel

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