Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

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.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

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

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

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.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

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.

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

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.