Quotes About Impulse

I behave instinctively and impulsively.

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

I act with my gut instincts.

Well, sometimes you've just got to go with your instincts.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

And if selfishness and a lack of sexual discernment was to be judged a good enough reason to murder someone, then the death rate would surely sky-rocket.

ingest a lot of illicit chemicals. The murder smacks of drug-frenzied adolescence. The dismembered arm and leg, the slit throat. Spaced-out teenage boys who love gore and have low impulse control.

Here are, however, a few extracts from Louis Blanc's book on the organization of labor: "In our plan, society receives its momentum from power." Now consider this: The impulse behind this momentum is to be supplied by the plan of Louis Blanc; his plan is to be forced upon society; the society referred to is the human race. Thus the human race is to receive its momentum from Louis Blanc.

Do you know what courage is? Not a willingness to fling oneself into danger without proper thought – that is nothing, nothing. There is cowardice in all impulse. Real courage lies in thinking things through, seeing all the risks, and taking them anyway. Lady Tamarind has courage.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Semille wept not because she did something stupid; she wept because she *didn't* do something stupid. Sometimes, to do something stupid--to disobey your parents, to rush into battle, to speak out of turn, to ruin your life--is a far better thing to do than to do nothing at all.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Playing and giving are closely related, they are the behavioral and transactional facets of the same impulse, the play-instinct. They share an aristocratic disdain for results.

Le jeu et le don sont étroitement liés. Ils participent, mentalement et socialement, de la même impulsion individuelle et générique : l'instinct ludique. Le jeu et le don partagent le même hautain dédain pour le résultat.

Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

All'improvviso viene un tal desiderio di fare una dormitina che la cosa migliore è di dormire subito alla prima occasione.

Cz?owiek jest jak ?ma: na o?lep rwie si? do ognia, cho? go boli i cho? si? w nim spali. Robi to jednak dopóty – doda? po namy?le – dopóki nie oprzytomnieje. I tym ró?ni si? od ?my...

If I acted the way I feel inside, I'd pounce on him and kiss him so hard and so long I'd be arrested for assault.

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.

He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because—oh, you'll love this—Mee so horny." I