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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

The impulse to form independent authorities is profoundly undemocratic.

Charles Flowers

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

Robert West

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

Nick Cave

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Richard Wright

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

Jacob Boehme

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Max Nordau

A fall in US stocks was the impulse for the retreat.

Hideyuki Suzuki

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Caecilius Statius

Unfortunately for Doran, Minnesotans aren't interested in giving away the governor's office to an impulse buyer.

Ron Carey

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Baltasar Gracian

The person who swears in public has a loss of impulse control.

Joseph Tecce

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

John Arlott

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Barbara Hepworth

We are always trying to help Sailors in any way possible. Hopefully this will inform Sailors to not impulse-buy a car.

Felipe Gonzalez

I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse.

Christopher Ricks

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Ambrose Bierce

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

Kristin Kreuk

The impulse purchase is gone. Now we have to be a destination.

Tom Stoffel

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

It's an impulse buy; you see it in the bin and you grab it.

Sean Bersell

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.

Kabbalah