Quotes About Impulse

Oare noi actionam ca urmare a gandirii, sau simtirea este aceea care stimuleaza actiunea, si numai uneori gandirea devine motorul actiunii?

And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something

He must try to stop swearing; he wonders why he's doing it. To keep them apart, maybe; he feels a dangerous tug drawing him toward this man.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

One moment of patience may change a life. One moment of impatience may destroy a life.

Anger is a feeling that let's your mouth work faster than your mind.

Young enough to know I can, old enough to know I shouldn't, stupid enough to do it anyway.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

I've learned... that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

Shopping while upset and emtional leads to alot of black being purchased...

my sense of exaltation was due not only to admiration of the autumn tints but to a bodily desire. Ample source of a joy which the heart feels at first without being conscious of its cause, without understanding that it results from no external impulse!

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Do you know," he said, "that there are people who can't go near high places not because they're afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump?

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle. But when the tide of passion had swept away the landmarks, he had no method of ascertaining the boundaries of right and wrong.

We always tend to keep within ourselves threshold reactions such as a little doubt, or a little impulse not to do something. If the impulses are not very strong we are inclined to put them aside in a one-sided way and by this we have hurt an animal or a spirit within us.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.