Impulses

Examples

• Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But she recognised too well, in her spirit, the mockery of her own impulses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To speak plainly, the electric impulses correspond in form and character to the sound vibration which they represent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Can't I even have human impulses? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Some of his impulses are particularly good, I assure you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We had shaken hands; he had turned to gobut he was not satisfied: he had not done or said enough to content his generous impulses. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Politics would be like education--an effort to develop, train and nurture men's impulses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Ah, but I don't suppose that: haven't I told you that your genius lies in converting impulses into intentions? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The more the educator knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Rosamond had delivered her soul under impulses which she had not known before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They were bound to each other by a love stronger than any impulses which could have marred it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At first five lines were used to carry these impulses to the receiving instrument, where there were five iron pins impinging on the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Analytical chemist, who is gloomily looking on, has diabolical impulses to suggest 'Wind' and throw up his situation; but represses them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Association does not create impulses or affection and dislike, but it furnishes the objects to which they attach themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The two impulses concur with each other, and render the whole transition more smooth and easy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Reis evidently did not know how to make the vibrations of his diaphragm translate themselves into exactly commensurate and correlated electric impulses of equal rapidity, range, and quality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This is acting on first impulses; you must take days to consider such a matter, ere your word can be regarded as valid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But when the subject matter is not used in carrying forward impulses and habits to significant results, it is just something to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The human impulses which create these social conditions, the human needs to which they are a sad and degraded answer--this human center of the problem the commission passes by with a platitude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The impulses of the former are, therefore, superior to those of the latter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What are mere passing black thoughts and angry impulses with most of us became therefore deeds with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What impulses are moving toward, not what they have been, is the important thing for parent and teacher. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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