#impulse

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#first #good #impulses #mistrust #nearly

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

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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

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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

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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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

#dust #encourage #gets #given #his