Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

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.

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

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

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

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience, not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...] If you went to the Actors Studio you'd spend six months seeing the snow before you could say, 'Look at the snow.' This takes a terrible burden away from the actor, who thinks he's got to see the woods and the snow. 'Give me my gun! I see a rabbit! Give me my gun!' " Meisner sounds thrilled at the possibility of a hunt. "That happens when you're still sitting there reading. Then when they put in the scenery you move to the window. Isn't that simple? How simple it is to solve the problem of seeing things when you know that it's all in you emotionally, and that walking to the window is only a convention.

Every thing I've done I did on impulse because I thought it would be fun.

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.

But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one. The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them. Levin was confirmed in this generalization by observing that his brother did not take questions affecting the public welfare or the question of the immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine.

Everything I've ever done I did on impulse because I thought it would be fun.