impulse quotes

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

-Jane Austen
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.14.

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

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

   Those sounds which oft have raised me, whilst they awed, And sent my soul abroad, Might now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live!

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Dejection:  An Ode', stanza1.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

- Robert Lowell Coover
  In Time Out,7 May.

Este natural impulso que Dios puso en m|†su Majestad sabe por que   y para que  ; y sabe que le he pedido que apague la luz de mi entendimiento dejando so  lo lo que baste para guardar su Ley, pues lo dema  s sobra, (seg u n algunos) en una mujer; y aun hay quien dice que dan‹  a. This natural impulse which God has implanted in me†only His Majesty knows whyand wherefore and His Majesty also knows that I have prayed to Him to extinguish the light of my mind, only leaving sufficient to keep His Law, since any more is overmuch, so some say, in a woman, and there are even those who say it is harmful.

- SorJuana Ine  s de la Cruz
Poes|  a, teatro y prosa,'Respuesta a sor Filotea' ('An  Answer to Sister Filotea',1982).

The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables, ch.20.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

- FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
^92  Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

AlleVerliebtheit [†] wurzelt allein im Geschlechtstriebe. All amorousness [†] is rooted in the sexual impulse alone.

- Arthur Schopenhauer
  DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.44 (translated by E F J Payne).

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to dowith capitalism.Thisimpulse exists among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.One may say that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all cultures of the earth, wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given.

- Max Weber
^5  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated byTalcott Parsons,1930).

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

- SirAngus FrankJohnstone Wilson
  TheWild Garden.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

-William Wordsworth
  'TheTablesTurned', stanzas 6^8.