Quotes About Impulse

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The economic impulse is individualistic, the cultural impulse is collective

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]

She rose suddenly and put out

Anger has grand plans that sometimes look foolish later.

Wait. Are you about to do something really stupid? -GUARD

Every thought precedes an action.

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.

Aristotle himself said that to get someone to take an action you need to build desire.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

And it's that impulse to negate our own impressions that is so astonishingly powerful.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

That greed of yours has got to be a skeeter in more than just my drawers.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

All it takes is instinct.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

it's crazy to think he wouldn't call the police. But I despise him. I don't care how irrational it is; if my mind worked normally, I wouldn't have killed eight people for the fun of it.

He was on whatever combination of drugs makes you constantly lick your lips and ignore stoplights.

What was he supposed to do besides break the living room window? Stand outside whacking off while she grabbed a cell phone and called for help?

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.

YOU HAD TO SEIZE THE MOMENT, ACT ON A GOOD IMPULSE BEFORE EVERYTHING JUST DISAPPEARED.

Those girls are on the road to trouble," I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk—and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted. Oh, our youthful needs! Oh, the deliciously blinding yearnings of the young—which inevitably take us right to the edges of cliffs, or trap us in cul-de-sacs of our design.