Impulse Quotes

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

I'm an impulse buyer. There are so many great things online! Having two kids, I feel like that's an easy, fun way to shop without letting it take up your entire day.

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

There is no shame in impulse.

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.