Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

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

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

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

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

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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

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

Revision is a good impulse to have.

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.

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.

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

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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

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

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

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

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

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

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 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.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.