#impulses

Impulses are hard to come by these days. ↗

— Jack Levine

#days #hard #impulses #these

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. ↗

— Henry Miller

#because #continually #deepest #ever #few

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#first #good #impulses #mistrust #nearly

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#sex #sexuality #suppression #nature

¡Creedlo, ciudadanos, aquel a quien la espada material de las leyes no detiene tampoco se detendrá por el temor moral de los suplicios del infierno, de los que se burla desde su infancia!. En una palabra, vuestro teísmo ha hecho cometer muchas fechorías, pero jamás ha evitado una sola. Si es cierto que las pasiones ciegan, que su efecto es tender ante nuestros ojos una nube que nos oculte los peligros de que están rodeadas, ¿cómo podemos suponer que los que están lejos de nosotros, como lo están los castigos anunciados por vuestro dios, puedan llegar a disipar esa nube que no disuelve siquiera la espada de las leyes, siempre suspendida sobre las pasiones? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#law #religion #religion

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #deeds #desires #follow #ideas

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

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

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

#director #down #feel #friends #hasn