Quotes About Impulse

They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: it's dumb, stupid, and no fun.

Instinct was clawing at him like an importuning dog.

Automatically, without considering what he was doing, but with the same desire for comfort that had pushed him into this café, Strike pulled his phone out of his pocket again and called Robin . . .

What is> forbidden had better be done pretty quickly.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.

This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.

While there might be some people who were natural diplomats, she wasn't one of them. She was forever butting heads with people, challenging them when she should have been convincing them, raising hackles where she should have been raising support. She had always been in a hurry, without always knowing where she wanted to go; she was too impatient to wait for the right time or the right confluence of events.

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. (In The Court Of The Dragon)

Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.

he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom

Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.

Unlike his father's composed look, his already seemed restless.

Think of pouring out all that money on a whim.

He doesn't act on analysis.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.

The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across the exchange with Eliot. "Why you haven't been offered the lead in some sexy movies I can only attribute to the stupidity of casting directors," writes the movie star to the dour literary man.

I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions--or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey

Do you want romantic? I can try. I'm more of a see-it, want-it, go-for-it type of guy, and I did: see you, want you, go for you." Her

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.