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Quotes About Impulsiveness

We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.
~ Lawrence Wright
impatient, reckless, careless, and full of entitlement.
~ Lee Child
And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I acted hastily towards him. Haste is a poor counsellor: I acted wrongly.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy. The movie took place many generations in the future, after which this reverse evolution had run its inevitable course, resulting in a society largely composed of morons.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
~ Drew Barrymore
I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.
~ Jim Thompson
exactly stand on formality; they plunged
~ Ann Moore
I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
~ Michelle Williams
but it is impossible to avoid what is fated; no one can repel it by wisdom, but he who is hasty without purpose will always have trouble;
~ Euripides
There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But the space between heaven and earth had cooled his mind, destroyed the impulsiveness that had led him to bring her here, and made him aware of the too obvious appeal, the struggle with an unrehearsed scene and unfamiliar words.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hasty actions are generally bad ones.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ése es el problema que tiene la gente que dispone de un buen par de piernas, que siempre van corriendo a todas partes.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)
~ Frank Zappa
I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.
~ Louise Rennison
It was a period of drunkenness, of blindness, of living only with the hands and mouth and body.
~ Anais Nin
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
~ Sarah Dessen
Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
~ Donald James
Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.
~ Heather Mitts
If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!
~ Mathias Malzieu
My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.
~ Howie Mandel
I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.
~ Charles Forsman