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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with me.
I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads.
I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.
The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.