Quotes About Impulse

These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is called philanthropy, when adopted as a profession, to be often useful by its energetic impulse to society at large, it is perilous to the individual whose ruling passion, in one exclusive channel, it thus becomes. It

Loneliness. Sometimes that awful feeling causes you to do something stupid.

You have to factor in the human propensity for simplification, Sverl, and for their inability to believe in their own demise and unimportance. It's the impulse behind the religions—

Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action," he said. "I prefer the glory of heroism amidst panic.

Should I push him or should I throw him? Howie asks. Do what comes naturally, I yelled back. I don't know, he says. This is a very unnatural thing.

You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.

Well, she could learn self-control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.

Avalanche, veux-tu m'emporter dans ta chute?

The man allured by a passing face, For ever bears the chastisement Of having wished to change his place.

Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick or a dark blue 1942 Buick or a blue 1932 Buick over a cliff of hell and into the sea.

She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.

I looked around for a fly to kill

Maybe I should have slammed her? How did a man know what to do? Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses.

Where do you go when the part of your brain that controls judgment is asleep, but the part that controls your motor activity is awake?

Stupid choices people made that they probably wouldn't if they'd thought about it for a split second longer.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.