Impulse Quote by H.L. Mencken

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night…

— Christopher Walken

“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change…

— Maria Edgeworth

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident…

— Peter Cooper

“Why not?” but without conviction, confirming for them both that this was a sudden impulse that most likely would not last out the afternoon.…

— Alice McDermott

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a…

— Otto Weininger

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

— James Russell Lowell

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

— Aldous Huxley

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz