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Quotes About Impulse

Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply
~ Douglas Wilson
Some things look better inside of the store.
~ Drake
Reaction" is convenient verbal shorthand for "I desire to behave in a particular way."—I may not act, you understand. But the impulse is with me. If, magically, all my restraints and inhibitions were to vanish, I'd embrace the woman, soothe the dog, throw out the cereal, weep or laugh or throw a temper tantrum.
~ Dwight V. Swain
I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.
~ Michael B. Jordan
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
~ John Spence
We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
~ David Deida
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.
~ Frederick Lenz
The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
~ Andrew Schneider
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
~ Northrop Frye
All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
~ Paul Auster
I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Anger Short-Circuits Learning
~ Jim Fay
up before I could react. Oh no—don't do it, Ned! I
~ Jim McCann
The gambler isn't playing a game; he is just playing.
~ Jim Paul
What makes us threaten the things we want most?
~ Jim Shepard
You sure you don't want me to kill him? You know, sometimes you kill just one person and it takes care of everything.
~ Joann Sfar
Not like you have anything to lose," Em added, coming up beside us. "Find Buck, then we'll ditch this place. I'm ready for a three-way with Ben and Jerry
~ Joanna Wylde
To hell with this slow shit. "You're wearing too much," I said. "Take something off, because otherwise I'm going to start ripping things.
~ Joanna Wylde
If Becca had any sense, she'd turn cold spray on my crotch.
~ Joanna Wylde
We both had it together. You don't decied to sneeze, you just do it. No one had the idea or was the leader; we just did it and were.
~ Joanne Greenberg
I suspected that she was an inch away from running around with her shirt off too.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson