#impulse

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?” He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#disaster #flirt #funny #humor #impulse

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#beat #behind #bettered #cheerfully #every

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

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#conceives #curiosities #his #impulse #journalist

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

Men are driven by two two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#hate #impulses #love #men #love

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#heterosexual #homosexual #impulses #mixture #most

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#bad #base #creatures #drawn #fascinating