Impulse Quotes

I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. (Angelina Jolie)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. View quote
Helen Keller
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. View quote
William Wordsworth
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing. View quote
Robert Browning
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. View quote
Abraham Maslow
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? (Jane Austen)
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? View quote
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
William Wordsworth
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. View quote
Joseph Conrad
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. View quote
Christopher McDougall
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. View quote
Stanley Crouch
Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught. View quote
Tiger Woods
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial...until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world. View quote
Samuel Smiles
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. View quote
William James
All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse. (Edmund Cooper)
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Object in/ and space – the first impulse may be to give the object – a position – to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with). Next – to change the position of the object. – Rauschenberg's early sculptures – A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden – The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).. View quote
Jasper Johns