A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele

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

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

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot

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

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung

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.
Nelson A. Miles

Impulses are hard to come by these days.
Jack Levine

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
William Moulton Marston

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.
Elie Wiesel

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

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

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