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Quotes About Impulse

Madrid's players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they're not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.
~ Quique Setien
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
~ Jane Austen
Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.
~ John Tiffany
I'm such an impulse buyer. I once went into a pet store for dog food and left with a fish tank and five fish. And yes, of course I forgot to buy dog food.
~ Colton Underwood
I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.
~ Richard Jeni
No one says anything for a minute. Then Fuck Hollywood says, "I know it's early, but can we start drinking?
~ Richard Kadrey
Pleasure and desire are altogether different things in the brain.
~ Richard O'Connor
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
~ Richard Savage
It was dangerous to kill when there wasn't enough reason, because after a while killing became the solution to everything, and when you got to thinking that way you were only one step from the chair.
~ Richard Stark
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
~ Richard Wright
Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.
~ Richelle Mead
I'm really not good with impulse control.
~ Richelle Mead
All the while, my mind reeled with what had happened. I have a hickey. I let Adrian Ivashkov give me a hickey.
~ Richelle Mead
hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.
~ Richelle Mead
Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?
~ Richelle Mead
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
~ Richelle Mead
Anger could flip to passion in a heartbeat.
~ Richelle Mead
I unlocked the door and, on impulse, swept Sydney into my arms and carried her inside.
~ Richelle Mead
Depends. Did you stop at the drugstore, along with your trip to the wine store?" "Stop there? Hell, I bought that place out, Sydney. I'm having no repeats of last time.
~ Richelle Mead
It was another horrible yet almost laughable moment. Cupcakes and birthday car sex had been my undoing.
~ Richelle Mead
The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
~ Rob Thomas
No, I hadn't made any decision; my mouth was leading its own life.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Remember: I am not asking you to believe these yarns at all. We know how much nonsense gets published these days, do we not? I am merely asking that you observe in yourself the strength and immediacy of the impulse to deny at once. Does this impulse vary according to the weight of the circumstantial evidence (such as it is) or according to how much your own imprinted and conditioned reality-tunnel is challenged?
~ Robert Anton Wilson