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Quotes About Impulse

Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy. Never make a decision when you are sad.
~ Unknown
When you're upset never make a decision you will never come up with a good solution.
~ Unknown
The belly will not listen to advice.
~ Seneca
If doing what you want is something that you'll regret in the morning, then sleep in late.
~ Unknown
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.
~ Victoria Moran
Credit is what enables people to pay 20% to 35% extra for that product which they probably don't need.
~ Unknown
S/M is about emotion, the erotic tension between my impulse toward something and my resistance against it.
~ Unknown
Any kick makes you quick.
~ Unknown
Grandma laughed dryly. "I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn't all fun and games. You're coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you're hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don't think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can't act on it. It doesn't matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I'll splatter whatever I want, whenever I want,
~ W. Bruce Cameron
One rational voice is dumb: over a graveThe household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.Sad is Eros, builder of cities,And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
~ W. H. Auden
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A lonely impulse of delight
~ W.B. Yeats
If they had not been rapacious, lustful, narrow and persecuting beyond the people of their time, the incarnation had been impossible; but it was an intellectual impulse from the Condition of Fire that shaped their antithetical self into that of the classic world.
~ W.B. Yeats
I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
~ Mark Kozelek
Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.
~ Chris Pirillo
Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.
~ Marilyn Manson
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.
~ Franz Grillparzer
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.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
~ Scott Adams
As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.
~ Garrison Keillor
You go to someone and you think, "I'll tell him this." But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later—you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse—the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.
~ Philip Roth
Some things you don't know why you do them.
~ Philip Roth