Quotes About Impulses

I never knew how good and generous and tender he was till now, for he lets me read his heart, and I find it full of noble impulses and hopes and purposes, and am so proud to know it's mine.

It was too easy to camouflage selfish impulses by invoking a higher cause as the real cause.

Madison wrote, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." The two shared a grim vision of the human condition, even if Hamilton's had the blacker tinge. They both wanted to erect barriers against irrational popular impulses and tyrannical minorities and majorities.

Rockefeller was intensely aware of the opposite sex yet, knowing of his father's history, kept his impulses under tight control.

People have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Harry Anslinger is our own darkest impulses, given a government department and a license to kill.

Cady, I'm serious. We should NOT always do what we're afraid to do,' says Mirren heatedly. 'We never should.' 'Why not?' 'You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there's probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.' 'So what's your philosophy, then?' Johnny asks her. 'Be a giant chickenhead?' 'Yes,' says Mirren. 'That and the kindness thing I said before.

the state of nature is rather a state of injustice, of violence, of uncontrolled natural impulses, and of inhuman deeds and emotions.

Things we conceal from others are insecurities that we are ashamed to admit, feelings and impulses we consider to be anti-social or inconsistent with our self-image, memories of events where we failed or performed badly against our own standards, and, most important, reactions to other people that we judge would be impolite or hurtful to reveal to their face.

hay algo dentro de mí que me grita que no, que no estoy dispuesta a eso de las disyuntivas y las renuncias, porque no quiero esa libertad en la que pierdo a uno de los dos hombres de los que vivo enamorada, y no me interesa quedar como una nena caprichosa, y ya sé que la madurez es precisamente sustraernos a la inmediatez de los deseos y la dictadura de los impulsos, pero entonces me temo que nunca seré una mujer madura.

Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.

shyness, modesty, anxiousness are considered noble and good, because they offer little resistance to one's own expansive impulses)

I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

if the northern lights had anything to do with it they would have chosen an electrostatic copier, as the lights were themselves electrical impulses born of powerful conflicting charges between the sun and the magnetic poles of the earth.

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.

I am eleven years old, I know, and I am not serious enough. Last night I said to myself: tomorrow I will be good. Good? I wasn't any better than I was the day before. Now here is a new month, and I haven't yet thought out how to be more sensible, how to master my impulses and my temper. I am ashamed to be so undisciplined.

As he sits there, I feel that I can see his mind as I see his body, and it is labyrinthine, fertile, sentient. I am loaded with adoration for everything that his head contains and for the impulses which blow in gusts.

Créeme, cuando hablo de vivir de acuerdo con los instintos, no es más que humo. Hay muchos instintos que deben ser reprimidos porque están descompuestos, podridos.

But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know it needs to do something: To eat. To piss or shit. To move or just lie down and rest.

punishment evokes sexual feelings in him; skin is logically connected in his mind with force, because sex is what he feels when he feels the urge to hurt her. [...] Force is suggested by the skin, because both to him mean real touch; [...] still conditioned by civilization to have abstract sexual impulses, he is drawn most by the silhouette, halfway between the fictive and the real.