Impulse

Famous quotes containing the word impulse:

    “What is desire?—
    The impulse to make someone else complete?
    That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “God once spoke to people by name.
    The sun once imparted its flame.
    One impulse persists as our breath;
    The other persists as our faith.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)