Quotes About Impulse

With our Paleolithic instincts, we're simply unable to resist technology's gifts. But this doesn't just compromise our privacy. It also compromises our ability to take collective action.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

Act quickly, think slowly.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.

If Ewan was a drink... he'd be whisky because he seems like a good idea when you're drunk but he makes you feel like shit in the morning. Haha!

Zoe dropped the towel back onto the floor, glancing at the bedroom clock: 3:52. Twenty-three minutes

Fuck, Dylan said, then thought it, just for the hell of it.

Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

Few acted so rashly as to commit murder or other felonies; the consequences of your actions still fell on you in this branch, not any other. But there was a shift in behavior that, while falling short of a mass outbreak of criminality, was readily discernible by social scientists. Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

But there was a shift in behavior that, while falling short of a mass outbreak of criminality, was readily discernible by social scientists. Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.