Men are victims of their own impulses.
When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.
The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to kno...
I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is...
A first impulse was never a crime.
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something you are.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
