We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.
Revision is a good impulse to have.
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
We. . . must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
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.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Malice remains its animating impulse.
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
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. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.