Impulse Quotes - Page 3

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

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

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

Malice remains its animating impulse.

Never resist a generous impulse.

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.