Quotes About Impulse

Anger begins with folly and ends with regret-

But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it, Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought

all the little rags of honest impulse and stumbling kindness with which we try to shelter ourselves from the winds of space.

I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, "Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.

When something exciting happens I randomly slap the person next to me.

Wishing you can sometimes punch someone in the face with no consequences.

I logout from FB reason: I am bored. After 5min I signed in reason: I am bored.

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead. Dead? said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was.