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Quotes About Impulse

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I take decisions on the spur of a moment.
~ Antara Mali
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
~ Lord Byron
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Desire is the very essence of man
~ Baruch Spinoza
Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.
~ Rita Rudner
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
~ William Butler Yeats
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
~ John Arlott
The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.
~ Chris Kilham
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
~ Mario Puzo
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
~ Aldrich Ames
A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.
~ James M. Cain
If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.
~ Jared Leto
Every man has his devilish minutes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world. I mean, man and female.
~ Tom Meighan
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
~ William Penn
There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
~ Anne Enright
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
~ Augustus Hare
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
~ H. G. Wells
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
~ Terence