Impulse Quotes - Page 16

• Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

  David Levithan

  Mind, One Word

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.76, Egmont UK

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• Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.

  Kiersten White

  Planning, My Friends

  Kiersten White (2013). “Mind Games”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hate, Passion, Love And Hate

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• He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

  Matthew Quick

  Daughter, Heart, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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• I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Evil, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Accomplishment, Goal, Feelings

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• Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Names, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Disagree

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• Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Reading, Writing

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• I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Boys, Impulse Control

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• The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
  fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
  terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started
  again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

  Seamus Heaney

  Inspirational, Art, Fundamentals

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• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Names, Goal

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.110, George Eliot

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• Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Heart, Giving

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• There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Men, Religion

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Creativity, Age

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press

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• A little sun, a little rain,
  A soft wind blowing from the west,
  And woods and fields are sweet again,
  And warmth within the mountain's breast
  
  A little love, a little trust,
  A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
  And life as dry as desert dust,
  Is fresher than a mountain stream.

  Stopford Brooke

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1889). “Poems”

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• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

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• The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Animal, Voice

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• There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Simple, Beloved Community

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Lonely, Independent, Science

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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