Impulses Quotes

287 Impulses quotes by 240 unique authors

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
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
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them — Will Durant
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity… — Tom Robbins
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must… — Elizabeth Hoyt
I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But… — Gena Showalter
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what… — Anita Shreve
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only… — Deborah Harkness
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and… — David Foster Wallace
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as… — Peter Benchley
I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I… — Galen Beckett
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.… — C.S. Lewis
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal… — Roberto Bolano
Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue… — Franny Billingsley
here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing… — Daphne du Maurier
- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If… — Lois Lowry
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse
My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible… — Colin Clark
To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes — Thomas Hardy
Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the… — Henri Nouwen

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