#pulse

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #impulse #impulsive #impulsiveness #life

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

#check #dead #discarded #few #haven

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#hate #impulses #love #men #love

The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. (...) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials 'for the sake of humanity,' and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#instincts #moral-law #love

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

— Ellen Hopkins

#acting

We play a show, and there's a hundred people, and people will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing. I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it. And the fact that people care enough to want to come see me make it, or buy a recording, or want to call me up to talk about it? Fuck, man, I think that is gravy. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#art

When someone says, “One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. 
Check their pulse to be certain. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#certainty #conversation #death #murder #pulse

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#become #did #enough #financial #fleetwood

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance