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