#impulse

Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#acting

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

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#give-all #impulse #instinct #love #sacrifice

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#been #believe #betray #church #get

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#artistic #discouraged #each #encouraged #father

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#consists #impulses #knowing #living #made

I've always had this impulse to be destructive. ↗

— Russell Brand

#destructive #had #i #impulse

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. ↗

— Richard Branson

#adding #australia #bit #blue #both

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#express #feeling #following #gratitude #impulse