Quotes About Impulse

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

Ever catch yourself in the middle of saying something you know you'll regret? Something so mean you know you should stop immediately but some part of your brain kicks in and won't let you stop?

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone—along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But

Maybe it was ridiculous to go on a date with someone I'd barely spoken to and whose main appeal was that he was good-looking and he liked Wilco. I'd certainly done such things with men based on far less.

fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of

Straining against her leash, the puppy tried to go a hundred different ways at once.

It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.

Sagittarius — They don't mean to interrupt, they just randomly remember things and get excited.

Am I the only one who ate my two weeks of quarantine snacks all on the first day?

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse — as a man shoots himself.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then—it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.

a slap and a night's disgrace. But when he sneaked into the kitchen and stole a hamburger patty from the table he got a trouncing. He

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.

If you are feeling angry, think very carefully about what new position you want to take before doing anything. By its very nature anger propels us into quick action, so guard against this. You will only fall on your face if you attempt to take a new position that you are not yet ready to take or that you have only casually thought through. Alice was furious with an

Luther, again, always compared the sexual to the excretory impulse, and said that marriage was just as necessary as the emission of urine.

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek... Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair. Mr. Bradford beamed.

The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.