Quotes About Impulse

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Something similar (to bird migrations) draws human beings on pilgrimages as well… Pilgrimage is a spiritual as well as biological impulse, cutting across species. It's even a cosmic mystery. The Earth itself follows a 584-million-mile path around the sun each year. We're all defined by movement.

Either you understood impulsive rage, and the memory failures that sometimes go with it, or you didn't. That was it.

before he could stop himself he heard himself say:

It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

The moral of the story here is that if you're ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no turning back. You just have to take it as it comes or you will remain a virgin for life.

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

I have nothing but regret that I cannot continue to behave the way I behaved all my life, and I can't wait for a chance to behave immoderately again.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.

In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

When something hits you, you better go with it.