Impulse Quotes - page 4

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy. (Osamu Dazai)

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

Amy Bloom

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

Cillian Murphy

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other.

John Flanagan

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

Zoe Kazan

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

Karl Menninger

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

Bill Griffith

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)

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

Fred Ward

I have a suicide impulse.

Hal Holbrook

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Leo Ornstein

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Lara St. John

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Martin Puryear

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Marya Hornbacher

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

Ray Manzarek

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Shoshana Zuboff

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Sinead O'Connor

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. (Samuel Alexander)

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Tom Flynn

Among other men Reason awakes in another form-as the impulse towards Personal Freedom, which, although it never opposes the mild rule of the inward Instinct which it loves, yet rises in rebellion against the pressure of a stranger Instinct which has usurped its rights; and in this awakening it breaks the chains,-not of Reason as Instinct itself, but of the Instinct of foreign natures clothed in the garb of external power.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Let us apply these principles to adultery. The state can no more prohibit it or punish it by law than any other illegitimate satisfaction of the sexual impulse.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Caspar David Friedrich

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