Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

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

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a suicide impulse.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

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.

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

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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

Malice remains its animating impulse.

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

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

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

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

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