Impulse Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “What persons are by starts they are by nature.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impulse Nature Persons
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
“The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the… — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image