Quotes About Impulse

Sin embargo, no había pensado en las consecuencias; en lugar de eso, había vivido el momento tal como debería hacer todo el mundo.

A guy sitting in the room someplace I can't see is talking about a guy up on Disturbed that killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deedsMakes ill deeds done!

It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

These violent delights have violent ends.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse and wheel there One of a mighty multitude, whose way And motion is a harmony and dance Magnificent....

My heart started acting like a drunk grasshopper.

I'm not a drinker -- my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

I was so touched by her that, after fifteen minutes, I wanted to marry her and, after half an hour, I completely gave up the idea of snatching her purse.

The desires of the human heart know no reason or rules.

How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

Wasn't this exactly one of the experiences she craved? Why couldn't she be more spontaneous and reckless?

But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I