Quotes About Impulse

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it.

Pero tales cosas por lo visto no se toman en consideración en el momento decisivo, en ninguno de los continentes, ni en Europa ni en América, sino antes bien se toman decisiones según el rapto de furia del primer momento y conforme a la primera sentencia que salga de la boca.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.

I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

Mike pulled Brie aside and said, "You're the only woman on the premises who's not just a little pissed off at her guy. Wanna run away with me right now? Before I do something stupid?" She grinned at him. "You think you're my guy, huh?" "Well, that's what I'm hoping…." *

He was a man of impulse, of lavish activity so long as his attention was fully absorbed; he disliked painstaking detail or following through the schemes that he originated with such undisciplined energy.

There's a word for your impulse, Louise. Cacoëthes,' I said to her. 'The urge to do something somewhat wrong. Not something unspeakable or horrific. Just something you know is a bad idea.

I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sûr de ses droits.

A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind.

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse." — "Supernatural Horror in Literature

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

tive um daqueles meus impulsos que nunca chegavam à execução: foi atirar à rua caixão, defunto e tudo.

All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.

When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey

when you remove time, de becker says, you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction