Quotes About Impulse

The logic of idolatry is ultimately self-and world-defeating, because the idolatrous impulse is born out of a deep distrust in God's love and care and a denial of the sacred character of the world. People embark on an idolatrous path when they believe that God's gifts are not sufficient or God's care is misdirected.

every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.

Why do I feel a song coming on? said Bean. The sarcastic words slipped out of him unbidden.

Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

our sexual feelings, in which we see the greatest upheaval and lack of inhibition and control, belong to the emotions. Is that right?

discounting' is when you discount something too much, just because it's some time in the future.

If I have a near-beer, I'm near beer. And if I'm near beer, I'm close to tequila. And if I'm close to tequila, I'm adjacent to cocaine.

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

have you heard the sex party rumor?" She winced and said, "It actually does sound familiar." I had the impulse to shake my head, but I didn't want to mess up Veronica's handiwork. I said, "You know when true equality will be achieved? When a woman with these kinds of skeletons in her closet has the nerve to run for office." 2004

I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.

There is hardly a more admirable impulse in the human soul than patriotism.

The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are so repulsive that, if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornment of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled.

I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.

I am the very child of caprice and folly.

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match.

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!