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Quotes About Impulsiveness

Estaba loca. Era una mujer de veinte años y había actuado como una niña de doce. <>
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
~ Robertson Davies
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
~ Duke of Wellington
That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.
~ Susan May Warren
He moved into the left lane, rolled down his window, and tossed all of Alessandra's new clothes and her shoe out of the car. "Oh, my God!" She spun in her seat, watching as her clothes hit the ground seventy-five miles an hour, getting caught in the brush. "Oh, my God!" She stared at him, aghast. "Why did you do that? Are you completely out of your mind?
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Games anyway. Who cares what they do to me? What really scares me is what they might do to my mother and Prim, how my family might suffer now because of my impulsiveness. Will they take their few belongings, or send my mother to prison and Prim to the community home, or kill them? They wouldn't kill them, would they? Why not? What do they
~ Suzanne Collins
Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.
~ Neal Shusterman
Baby, in a couple of minutes I'm going to rip off your god damned panties and show you some turkey neck you'll remember all the way to the graveside. I have a vast and curved penis, like a sickle, and many a gutted pussy has gasped come upon my callous and roach-smeared rug. First let me finish this drink.
~ Charles Bukowski
And also forever too late for Lily to learn that raging passion predicts nothing but a mess of bad news for everybody.
~ Charles Frazier
There something I can do to get this over with quick? Like, can I just run in front of a cab and take my lumps and we call it even? As opposed to you cutting off my nose and all, I mean.
~ Charlie Huston
Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.
~ Tommy Lee
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
When I get nasty like that, it's like I'm standing outside of myself and I know I'm being terrible and irrational but there's nothing I can do about it.
~ Caroline Kepnes
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
~ George R.R. Martin
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
~ Lillian Carter
Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.
~ Al Bernstein
Christ. You can be a real pain in the ass, you know that? No impulse control, but totally single-minded. Helluva combination.
~ J.R. Ward
galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. where have you been? why did you do this to me? and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionaires, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races. I go with him.
~ Jack Kerouac
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
~ Gelett Burgess
A fool and his money are quickly parted.
~ Jeff Bridges
Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!
~ Tanya Huff
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.
~ Terry Pratchett
What was that about anyway?" Peter demanded. "You could have gotten us killed!
~ Neal Stephenson