Quotes About Impulse

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

She whispered Yes before she even thought.

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

and felt a little stabbing impulse to kick the squire on his backside as he left the room.

When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for - soup?

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

There is only one driving force: The desire.

If the pleasure is immediate and the pain distant, or if the profit is immediate and the punishment distant. This is the kind of thing that moves weak-willed people, and there is no human impulse that is not liable to moral weakness.

He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.

When I was a child, Theodora said lazily, '--many years ago,' Doctor, as you put it so tactfully--I was whipped for throwing a brick through a greenhouse roof. I remember I thought about if for a long time, remembering the whipping but remembering also the lovely crash, and after thinking about it very seriously I went out and did it again.

A person angry, or laughing, or terrified, or jealous, will go stubbornly on into extremes of behavior impossible at another time;

When I was a child," Theodora said lazily, "—'many years ago,' Doctor, as you put it so tactfully—I was whipped for throwing a brick through a greenhouse roof. I remember I thought about it for a long time, remembering the whipping but remembering also the lovely crash, and after thinking about it very seriously I went out and did it again.

Losing my temper will not help,' he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....