Impulses Quotes

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.