Quotes of: Impulse Keyword

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Annie Lennox

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

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

Cillian Murphy

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Caecilius Statius

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

David Tang

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Scott Turow

Rosa: Love is an impulse. You can't rationalize it.

The Sea Inside

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The Discourses

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

The First Salute

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Jose Carreras

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Philip Larkin

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

Sophie Kinsella

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

Tom Cullen

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Richard Wright

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Jakob Bohme

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

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer