Impulse
The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
To impel; to incite.
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Impulse Quotations
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard Branson
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell
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
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
Angelina Jolie
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Impulse Translations
impulse in Dutch is aandrift, drang, impuls, aandrang
impulse in French is impulsion, incitation
impulse in Latin is pulsus
impulse in Norwegian is tilskyndelse, impuls, innfall
impulse in Portuguese is impulso
impulse in Spanish is instinto, impulso
impulse in Swedish is impuls, ingivelse
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