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Quotes About Impulse

Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence.
~ Zeruya Shalev
To?i cei care gre?esc ?tiu din capul locului c? sunt pe cale s? fac? o gre?eal?, dar nu se pot ab?ine. Probabil c? surpriza e dat? doar de amploarea gre?elii. - RO (Trad. Ioana Petridean) Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence. - EN
~ Zeruya Shalev
I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart.
~ Lily Collins
I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.
~ Jimmy White
I almost said no to 'Broken Arrow.' I ended up doing it on a lark.
~ Howie Long
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
~ Horace
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
~ Horace Mann
It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other.
~ Howard Thurman
Whatever it was in his eyes she had seen, it made her take him home with her. I shouldn't be doing this, she told herself as she spooned her fleech-mush into a bowl and reconstituted it with water in the dispenser. A nonsocialised introversion level 6 winger with Grade 3 narcissistic tendencies doesn't do this.
~ Unknown
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
~ Idries Shah
Nunca sigas ningún impulso para enseñar, sin importar lo fuerte que pudiera ser. El mandato para enseñar no se siente como un impulso.
~ Idries Shah
Un beso robado no se devuelve fácilmente.
~ Idries Shah
Counsels of Bahaudin You want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself: First Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
~ Idries Shah
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.
~ Colin Wilson
In hunger, one doesn't choose
~ Conn Iggulden
I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.
~ Connie Chung
Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.
~ Conrad Aiken
When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can." (Bunny from picture book)
~ Unknown
I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
~ Craig Ferguson
Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.
~ Craig Groeschel
people plan evil for themself because of anger.
~ Unknown
Are you thinking with your head or your dick?" Izaak demanded. "Asking for a friend. Asking because you're a dumbass and—
~ Unknown
I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader
~ D.J. MacHale