Quotes About Impulse

I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

His heart runs away with his head.

His T-shirt followed. Yep. Just like I thought. "Before you start dancing, we don't have any cash!" I called. "Woo!" Desandra waved her arms. "Take it off!

Faceci i miecz. Mój ojciec mawiaÅ', ?e je?eli umieÅ›ci siÄ™ sprawnego fizycznie faceta w pomieszczeniu, gdzie znajduje siÄ™ miecz oraz manekin do ?wiczeÅ" i zostawi go samego, to obojÄ™tnie, jak pokojowe usposobienie ma ów facet, zawsze podniesie broÅ" i spróbuje d?gn?? manekina. Taka jest ludzka natura.

If we walk in there, they'll shoot us. They won't hesitate—they'll do it on instinct. It's second nature to them, a reflex, like stopping before a red light." "Mhm." It's good that he was here to explain it to me. I would've never figured it out on my own.

There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor. —HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages.

Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book

She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.

By a dialectic well known to those who habitually succumb to temptation he passed in a second from the time when it was too early to struggle to the time when it was too late to struggle.

The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.

It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.

Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicación fanática. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzarán las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas páginas inútiles y demasiados amoríos frustrados.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

We risk all in being too greedy.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.