Impulse Quotations | Page 2

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

Do not just act on impulse at this juncture, which will decide the future course that China and Taiwan will follow, otherwise I'm afraid you won't get another opportunity for regret,

Consumers right now are bargain hunters, and that's what Wal-Mart is talking about. If you're offering a bargain and the consumer thinks it will go away, you'll get the consumer to buy, but there is no impulse buying going on.

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

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

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!