Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

A lonely impulse of delight

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

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

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

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

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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

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.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

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

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

I have a suicide impulse.

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

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

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

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 lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

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

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.