#pulse

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #character #complete #consumerism #difference

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#best #blog #blogs #get #i

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ↗

— Jane Austen

#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. ↗

— George P. Baker

#else #felt #human #human being #immature

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. ↗

— Tom Baker

#comfort #drink #exciting #fantasy #get

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#company #going #good #i #i think

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#does #impulses #introduces #optics #psychoanalysis

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#judgement #sometimes #strong #judgement

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl