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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. -- Henry David Thoreau
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. -- William Wordsworth
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. -- Henry Van Dyke
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. -- Richard Branson
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. -- David Seabury
Planning is not my friend. Impulse is. -- Kiersten White
Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network. -- Rita Rudner
Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. -- William James
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. -- Aldous Huxley
I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. -- Josh Pais
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. -- W. H. Auden
We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
"One impulse from a vernal wood -- William Wordsworth
I've always had this impulse to be destructive. -- Russell Brand
What persons are by starts they are by nature. -- Laurence Sterne
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. -- Robert Collier
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. -- Agnes Repplier
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. -- Rabindranath Tagore
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -- Helen Keller
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them. -- Aime Martin
A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. -- Lord David Cecil
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. -- Karl A. Menninger
Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. -- Ellen Hopkins
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. -- Ralph Fiennes
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. -- Bryan Stevenson
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. -- Aldous Huxley
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. -- Eric Hoffer
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. -- Augustus Hare
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. -- Christopher McDougall
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. -- C. S. Lewis
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. -- Ray Manzarek
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. -- Robert Collier
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. -- Joan Didion
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. -- Jandy Nelson
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. -- Angelina Jolie
I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. -- Angelina Jolie
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. -- Leonardo da Vinci
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. -- Samuel Johnson
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. -- Mortimer Adler
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars. -- Steve Albini
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed. -- Timothy Hutton
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars. -- Max Weber
The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings. -- Edward Gibbon
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My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. -- Steve Albini
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. -- Maya Angelou
Never resist a generous impulse. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Malice remains its animating impulse. -- Janet Malcolm
A lonely impulse of delight -- W.B. Yeats
A lonely impulse of delight -- W.B. Yeats
I have a suicide impulse. -- Hal Holbrook
There is no shame in impulse. -- Douglas Coupland
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. -- Alexander Pushkin
Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse -- Kelley Armstrong
A first impulse was never a crime. -- Pierre Corneille
I'm really not good with impulse control. -- Richelle Mead
Everyone has the impulse to be elite. -- Alfre Woodard
Revision is a good impulse to have. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse. -- Friedrich Schiller
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. -- John C. Bogle
Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. -- Deepak Chopra
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. -- Oscar Wilde
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason -- Blaise Pascal
When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT. -- Rhonda Byrne
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. -- Ovid
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. -- Juvenal
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. -- Thom Gunn
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. -- Baltasar Gracian
We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping. -- Kristin Kreuk
I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business. -- Jason Kilar
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. -- Gordon Ramsay
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. -- Virginia Postrel
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. -- Brenda Ueland
Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism. -- George Gilder
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. -- Daniel Goleman
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. -- Walt Disney
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. -- William James
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. --
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. -- Stephen Fry
The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty. -- Barnett Newman
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse. -- Ovid
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. -- Aldous Huxley
The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse. -- Russell Green
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. -- George Santayana
I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list. -- Sophie Kinsella
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. -- Rose Macaulay
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse. -- Elise Valmorbida
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. -- Aaron Hill
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. -- Paul Auster
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. -- Horace Mann
That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. -- Sanford Meisner
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. -- Susan B. Anthony
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. -- Philip Larkin
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. -- John Arlott
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. -- Marcus Aurelius
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. -- Ambrose Bierce
I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. -- Elon Musk
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. -- Saul Bass
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. -- Joan Didion
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. -- Dennis Covington
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish. -- James Salter
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. -- Angus Wilson
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. -- Terence McKenna
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. -- Brian Aldiss
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. -- Edward Weston
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. -- Andre Breton
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. -- William James
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. -- Ted Dekker
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. -- Zola Jesus

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