Quotes About Impulse

Sometimes when you remember yourself in a big, big fight, and you remember being very emotional, you use words, and you react in a way that you take back some hours later.

I usually know when something is going to end up being catastrophic but I don't really care. I find that the things that end up being earth shattering are the things that give me the most thrill.

Some people cheat because they want to, because they can, because it gives them a thrill, or because they just can't do long-term relationships.

I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.

Whenever I walk down Oxford Street I see thousands of ties and there is always one that winks at me and says 'get me out of here,' so I buy it.

Self-control was overrated.

But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.

I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.

And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity.

She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

You want to throw your life away for some stupid conversation we had? Like we're the first people ever who talk about people we want dead.

Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to "clarify" what's happening in a given narrative, to explain "what John is getting at" or "what Matthew is trying to say" or "what Paul really means here."13 I've been guilty of this more times than I care to admit, and I'm not alone.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Every time something pops in my head, I think twice about it and I do it anyway.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.