Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

Revision is a good impulse to have.

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

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.

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.

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

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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

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.

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

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

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

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.