Quotes About Impulsiveness

Those swift to think are not always secure.

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

Youth is ignorant, and its passion is abstract.

What made him irresistibly charming – his impulsiveness, his impatience with the dull, his insistence on energy,28 his sense of the comic, the depth of his emotional responses, his intense determination to do things his way, his willingness to try anything – these would have been the very things with which Wieck had the greatest trouble.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

I'm sorry," muttered Locke. "I was so keen to come to Tal fucking Verrar." "It's not your fault. We were both eager to hop in bed with the wench; it's just shit luck she turned out to have the clap.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Confound it, it's foolish, Tom

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

Stabbing is for suckers who want to die.

It seems the only sin Patrick could be talking about is homicide. Perhaps in a moment of rage or carelessness, the young Patrick impulsively killed one of the slaves who worked the family's lands. He could get away with it: after all, he was the son of the lord of the manor. But as time went on—and he found himself in the position of slave, his heart changed by the love of God—the gravity of his crime dawned on him.

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

I like to shoot from the hip.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

Shoot first and ask questions later, and don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you.

You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.

Faced with a boy I had a crush on—a bow-legged Missouri cowboy with the face and form of young Marlon Brando—I eagerly took the tequila his friend handed me. Forgoing lime and salt, I tucked my hair behind my ears and tossed back a shot. As that one went down like bleach, I was holding up my glass for another.

There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure,' she said, remembering her brother's words of warning. Damn my stubbornness, she muttered.

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