Quotes About Impulse

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

I want a new liver to replace my heart.""Um, why?""Because then I could drink more and care less.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn't?"He snorted. "You don't just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

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

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.