#impulses

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

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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

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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. ↗

— Donna Murphy

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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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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

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

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— Stephen Hopkins

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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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