Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in man to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.
If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
I have a suicide impulse.
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.
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I think within a year administration is pretty much going to dismantle American society as we've known it. I'm not sure that we're able to stop it from happening, but I don't think people should just roll over and passively watch it happen.
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.