35 Metaphors for impulse

It may be that this impulse or instinct is the unconscious effect of a kind of prophetic dream which is forgotten when we awakelending our life a uniformity of tone, a dramatic unity, such as could never result from the unstable moments of consciousness, when we are so easily led into error, so liable to strike a false note.

Mainländer gives utterance to the opinion when he says: "The sexual impulse is the centre of gravity for human existence.

He would have nothing whatever to do with the rabble of runaway slaves, whose only guiding impulse would be loot and license, although he knew how easy it would be to raise such an army if he should choose to do it.

The instinctive impulses of an invalid are not safe guides.

And if, as Matthew Arnold declared, the primary impulse both of individuals and of nations is the tendency to expansion, Macedonia both in virtue of its location and of its population was foreordained to be a magnet to the emancipated Christian nations of the Balkans.

In such a purely instinctive action as leaping backwards from a falling stone, the impulse to leap and the inference that there is danger, are simply two names for a single automatic and unconscious process.

"That single impulse is a forcing out of almost all the breath.

Political impulses are not mere intellectual inferences from calculations of means and ends; but tendencies prior to, though modified by, the thought and experience of individual human beings.

; impulse is perception in process of becoming.

O likewise the free lovely impulses Of hospitality, the pious friend's Faithful attachment, these, too, are a holy Religion to the heart; and heavily

The second impulse, hurrying events to a decision, is that very combined scheme of activity which the despots of Europe too evidently display.

The impulse of mere desire is slavery, obedience to self-imposed law, freedom.

If you like to put it so he must act on the impulse because the impulse is not worth a moment's thought.

Her first impulse was wild terror.

But impulse is not courage.

But it is a very difficult task, because the impulse in question is a natural and innate perversity of human nature.

Before him, the primary impulse of epic is an impassioned sense of man's nature being containedby his destiny: his only because he is in it and belongs to it, as we say "my country."

Something of this was undoubtedly congenital, and there are indications that the strong natural impulse, held in check only by a powerful will and a watchful conscience, was the torment of his life.

It is impossible to generalize with any degree of confidence about the sexual nature of either man or woman in our present state of crude and barbarous ignorance; but I am inclinedvery tentativelyto agree that this generalization is correct, and that the creative impulse is an even stronger factor in the sexual life of women than of men.

Blind impulse is her highest wisdom, after all.

The mere impulse given to the value of property in this island by emancipation, is a thing as notorious here, as the fact of emancipation.

The impulse which now drew us together was only the unconscious souvenir of an earlier acquaintance, for we had met before.

He had been beneath an Indian sun, where the impulses of the heart are fervid as the clime, and where, when the sun is gazed upon, its influence is acknowledged.

And it seemed to Peter that this rejected impulse had been a sign that he was destined to be an evangel to the whites as well as to the blacks.

"My dear," she said, with the twilight impulse of nearness,"I am an old woman.

35 Metaphors for  impulse