Quotes About Impulse

Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.

The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

The Imp of the Perverse.

In this unlighted cave, one step forward That step can be the down-step into the Abyss. But we, we have no sense of direction; impetus Is all we have; we do not proceed, we only Roll down the mountain, Like disbalanced boulders, crushing before us many Delicate springing things, whose plan it was to grow.

I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

His heart was a catapult in his chest.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

I'm a shopaholic. I really am. I can't help myself. I do go into, browse, and purchase from my own shops, too, although the CEOs who run my businesses wish I didn't.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

I just follow my heart.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.

I had no thoughts in my head. There were thoughts only in my heart and my belly and my loins.