Quotes About Impulse

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

Feeling had indeed smothered judgment that day.

Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed!

he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice

He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.

Over and above the genuine emotion which she raised in his heart there hung the sense that he was casting a die by impulse which he might not have thrown by judgment.

Half the pleasure of a feeling lies in being able to express it on the spur of the moment, and I let out mine.

She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train.

Tom offered me a cigarette. The implication was that I was going to need it. Therefore, obviously, I refused it.

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.

She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding-time among the beasts in a zoo—any death-wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

Odd how a single, impulsive action could lead to a string of consequences.

2. Impulse to "do one more thing" when I don't have enough time

A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.

Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

I insist on a lot of time being spent thinking, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life." —Warren Buffett

No fue sino hasta que sucumbimos ante la tentación que pudimos tomar conciencia de la insensatez de nuestros deseos

I wish I could control myself! When I get in a tight place, it seems all I can think of is cutting their heads off!

It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.