Impulse Quotes
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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.
— Deepak Chopra
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
— Emile Souvestre
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
— Russell Brand
It was one of those impulse things
— Janet Evanovich
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
— Taylor Caldwell
To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
— Henna Inam
She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose.
— Tiffany Baker
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
— James Russell Lowell
I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him.
— Kami Garcia
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
— Dennis Covington
Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse
— Kelley Armstrong
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse
I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.
— Woody Allen
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
— Brian Aldiss
Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.
— John Steinbeck
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
— Terence
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
— William James
If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others.
— Moutasem Algharati
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
— Marlon Brando
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
— Baltasar Gracian
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy ...
— Harriet Monroe
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
— Mason Cooley
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
— Franz Kafka
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
— Jeanette Winterson
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.
— Elise Valmorbida
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
— Rob Thomas
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
— Horace Mann
God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.
— Deepak Chopra
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.
— Cassandra Clare
The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.
— Tana French
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
— Rupert Everett
So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn't?"He snorted. "You don't just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it. — Dannika Dark
The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.
— Charles De Lint
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
— Bertrand Russell
The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.
— Laline Paull
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.
— Jackie Gleason
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
— Caecilius Statius
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
— Idries Shah
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
— Colin Wilson
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
— Walt Whitman
I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.
— Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
— William James
Acton your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins
Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
— Daisaku Ikeda
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
— Ambrose Bierce
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
— Alexander Pushkin
Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
— Karl Jaspers
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
— Marianne Williamson
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
— Stephen Fry
With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.
— Deepak Chopra
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What is desire?The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
— Amy Bloom
I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
— Laurence Sterne
It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.
— Will Christopher Baer
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
— Allan Bloom
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.
— Edan Lepucki
At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
— Brenda Ueland
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
— Upton Sinclair
On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.
— Victorine E. Lieske
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
— Robert Motherwell
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
— William S. Burroughs
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
— Chogyam Trungpa
When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT.
— Rhonda Byrne
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
— Anna Quindlen
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.
— Marcus Aurelius
