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Quotes About Impulse

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
~ Oswald Chambers
The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual.
~ Oswald Chambers
never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
~ Oswald Chambers
If you're determined to commit suicide, you'll blow your brains out or you'll jump off a tall building. You'll do something that you can't take back, in other words. When you 'try to kill yourself' by taking too many pills – like I did – you know you're probably gonna get found by someone. So all you're doing is sending a message.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.
~ Unknown
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
~ Pablo Picasso
Remember that more than 60 percent of what we buy wasn't on our list. And
~ Paco Underhill
Yeah, he'd been trained to be good with details, but once his dick started working, his brain generally shifted to standby.
~ Pamela Clare
If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.
~ Pat Cadigan
It's all too easy to hit the "send" button before we've really had the chance to think about the effect on the audience.
~ Pat MacMillan
See you tomorrow," he said, instead. "All right." Then, impulsively, I asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?" "Sure," he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.
~ Patricia Briggs
Un simple clic; no hace falta nada más para cambiar una vida. A veces para mejor. A veces para mucho peor. Pero nunca lo pensamos. Hacemos clic y ya está.
~ Patrick Carman
I knew I was lucky to go undetected and I was afraid my luck would run out. I feared that I would be caught, but the allure of a warm body, one that would not leave at the end of the night, stayed with me, and I constantly thought about killing again.
~ Unknown
future selves as we focus on gaining short-term pleasure at the cost of long-term benefits.
~ Unknown
El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco.
~ Patrick Modiano
What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are.
~ Patrick Ness
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...
~ Patrick O'Brian
I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I sat still as stone with my fingers aching. I wanted to play, not listen. Want isn't strong enough a word. I was hungry for it, starved. I'm not proud of the fact that I thought about stealing his lute and leaving in the dark of the night.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Out with it," Kote said finally. "What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Kote was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did." Bast
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No hay veleidad como la del viento o el capricho de una mujer.
~ Patrick Rothfuss