Quotes About Impulsiveness

He ain't dead. They say just his ear's shot off." "That don't sound like me. It ain't smart to shoot a man's ear off. A man ain't got but two.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why do people wish to be silly?

This just ain't my day, is it?' They came to the statue of a naked woman and Lewis slapped her on the buttocks. 'You wouldn't turn me down, would you, princess?' he said.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

La decisión de intentar encontrar una solución rápida y decisiva es una causa frecuente de fracasos.

The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy.

but angry people are not always wise;

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.

We looked like dogs chasing cars in trafic

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

I think you jump into things without thinking ahead very much because I had never been in an airplane - even in a commercial airliner. I had never flown at all. I just wanted to be commissioned, to be a commissioned officer.

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.

It is a disturbing thought that we suffer in this world just as much by being prudent and taking precautions as we do by being rash and impulsive and acting as the spirit moves us.

I was full of piss and vinegar in those days, not to mention too stupid to know better, in other words still in my twenties

Sometimes the most dangerous enemy is a hasty heart," he said softly.

I'm fifty; all I know is that people nineteen years old will do anything, and that the only thing which makes the adult world at all safe from them is the fact that they are so preconceived of success that the simple desire and will are the finished accomplishment, that they pay no attention to mere dull mechanical details.

Dutchy and I are about as opposite as two people can be. I am practical and circumspect; he is impulsive and direct. I'm accustomed to getting up before the sun rises; he pulls me back to bed.

He knew what was going to happen next. He'd answer her silly-ass question, take her drunken ass out on the dance floor, and an hour later they'd be doing the horizontal cha-cha. Not bad work if you could get it though, he thought... "How'd I lose my eye?

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.