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Quotes About Impulsiveness

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
~ Action Bronson
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
~ Irwin Shaw
I ran away at 15 to chase a guy that I met who would become my boyfriend, and he was living in L.A.
~ Beth Hart
Laura n'a jamais dissimulé ni différé le moindre de ses sentiments. Si Laura aime quelqu'un, elle l'embrasse, si Laura boit, elle est ivre, et elle le dit, si elle s'emmerde, elle quitte la table au milieu du repas, en disant qu'elle s'emmerde, et si elle veut tuer quelqu'un, elle le tue. Et elle le tue elle-même, et elle dit pourquoi!
~ Fred Vargas
Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.
~ Daniel Naroditsky
you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood
~ Ross H. Spencer
The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time.
~ Margaret Atwood
Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!
~ Margaret Mitchell
Am I too late? Caleb asked as he joined them. Did he do something stupid? Yeah. On both counts. Tristan stalked past Nick.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
See?" I crowed. "I know what I'm doing. Two weeks, tops, and you'll be begging to dip your fries in my shake." "You think?" It took me about a second before I realized I'd done it again. My mouth seriously needed a chaperone.
~ Elise Allen
Her headlong rush telegraphed all her youth and incaution.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.
~ Arthur Nersesian
On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Excesivo como casi todo en él: su cólera y sus buenos humores
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
This is the problem with "long termism," a problem yoga identified more than two thousand years ago. When life's rap on the knuckles is not immediate enough to react as a deterrent, or the reward does not come fast enough to act as a spur, we tend to fell and act like children. We seek immediate gratification.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
~ bacon francis ii
It was the one time in my life I did something without thinking it through. People like me, people like you, all we think about is consequences. Practically from the day we're born. And look at our fucking lives.
~ Gary Shteyngart
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
~ Jean Nouvel
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch.
~ Jimmy Pardo
It was a stupid, insane, suicidal idea. Which makes it quite hard to explain why I decided to help. I guess it boils down to this. Charlie was my best friend. I missed him. And I couldn't think of anything better to do. Really stupid reasons which were never going to impress the police, the headmistress or my parents. Looking back, I reckon this was the moment when my whole life started to go pear-shaped.
~ Mark Haddon
It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
~ Anthony Kiedis
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
~ Aristotle