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Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Traveling is more funhell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson
The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.
— Joseph Conrad
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.
— Kurt Eichenwald
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
— Robin Wasserman
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
— Jack Levine
Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.
— Lewis Engel
Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?
— Neal Shusterman
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.
— Patricia Churchland
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
— James Ramsey Ullman
Men are victims of their own impulses.
— Gloria Steinem
His life and actions were determined less by impulses and aspirations than by prohibitions and the fear of punishment. At
— Hermann Hesse
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
— James A. Baldwin
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
— Igor Stravinsky
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
— David Brooks
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
— George Santayana
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
— Eugene Jarvis
Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.
— Anurag Shourie
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses - not your long-term goals - will guide your choices.
— Kelly McGonigal
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.
— Mel Gibson
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
— John Paul Caponigro
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
— N.D. Wilson
Impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you ...
— John Geddes
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
— G. Stanley Hall
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
— Rex Stout
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
— Margaret Fuller
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
— George Santayana
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
— Seneca The Younger
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
— Ellen Willis
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
— Jeff Bridges
Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self!
— Heidi DuPree
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
— Leo Tolstoy
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
— Gustav Mahler
I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.
— Matthea Harvey
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
— Helene Deutsch
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
— Franz Schubert
impulses and instincts, id is immutable and everlasting.
— Steven Ray Ozanich
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.
— Marianne Williamson
... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
— Nancy Jo Sales
Feeling like a caveman tonight? Or do you still insist you're immune to such primitive impulses?
— Claire Kent
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.
— James Surowiecki
Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.
— Stephen Hopkins
Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In
— Sarah LaChance Adams
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.
— Leah Hager Cohen
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
— Albert Einstein
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
— Joseph Conrad
Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.
— Franny Billingsley
Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes.
— The School Of Life
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.
— Kiese Laymon
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
— Edith Wharton
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
— Henry Miller
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
— Antoine Predock
Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.
— Andrew Solomon
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
— Bertrand Russell
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
— Paul Schullery
As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
— Og Mandino
We are beautiful, strange creatures of heat and noise, of sudden, inscrutable impulses, of savage passions.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
My impulses were not filled with unfailing virtue.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
— Daniel Goleman
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
— Sigmund Freud
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
— Nikolai Gogol
respectability to good impulses
— George MacDonald
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
— Marquis De Sade
Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
— Thaddeus Norris
I am ... I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Joseph Addison
Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.
— Thomas Pynchon
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
— Mason Cooley