Impulsions Quotes & Sayings

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes. — P. J. O'Rourke

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God. — Voltaire

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember. — Donna Lynn Hope

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. — Griffin Dunne

I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation. — Francis Bacon

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause. — Gresham Barrett

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. — Barbara Kingsolver

Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations, or drawn by contrary impulsions, his natural tendency is deranged; he is under the necessity to follow a new route; this conducts him to his end, which it even displays to him as the most desirable good. — Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. — Stephen Colbert

They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be. — Darnell Lamont Walker

He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him. — Jojo Moyes

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. — Charles F. Kettering

I lean over to him and put my palms on his smooth cheeks. "That's how I know you're still a boy. Because you're so sure." He — Jenny Han

Damon needed to be healed. Not from his physical ailments, but from the wounds that came from the ones he loved always leaving him. — Lexi Blake

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. — Bonnie Jo Campbell