Quotes About Impulse

The Imp of the Perverse will try to torment you with thoughts of whatever it is you consider to be the most inappropriate or awful thing that you could do. To illustrate this point, each of my patients whose thoughts are summarized below (many of whom you'll meet in later chapters) told me that his or her particular bad thoughts focused squarely on whatever was for him or her the most inappropriate, awful, or shameful thing he or she could think of doing:3

Hell, we were the ones who were attacked. She was in heat. Some women get drunk or high and all they want to do is fuck.

for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there for the taking, all along. Only he don't think he can ask, nor take, without earning it. Without no pain. Oftener than not, a young man's a regular fool.

Love, the hidden spring of life, and soul's desire. Celestial gold, secreted, laid by fire In every heart, in every thing that lives, In every thought that human impulse gives. The coin of heaven, the treasure of the earth, The rarest gift, and joy of largest worth.

Jeg vil ikke have noget engang - jeg vil have det nu. Men jeg ved kraftknuseme ikke, hvad det er, jeg vil have

Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. "We

Sex is like crime. Only one per cent motivation and ninety-nine per cent opportunity.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

The one important and essential difference that distinguishes humans from the lower animals is that humans possess a mind. We reason. Our life is ruled not by every passing impulse that flashes across the transmission lines of our nerves. Rather, our mind is in charge. Our brain is the guiding power of the nervous system, and consequently of our body and its functions.

Your brain though it is the ruler of your body, has not the power of itself to initiate thought; nor can it, of itself, direct your muscles to perform any definite action. It must receive, first, a suggestion or impulse from without.

People sometimes made mistakes when they felt overburdened. Maybe they drank too much, slept with the wrong person, yelled at loved ones.

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

If you are in too great a hurry, you will certainly live to repent it.

I suppose you can't help who you fancy, can you? And that was the bottom line, I fancied Nick. Fancied him more than I'd fancied anyone in years, and somehow, when someone gives you that tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you stop thinking about the rights and wrongs, the shoulds and should nots, and you just go with it.

It was one of those impulse things