Impulses

As Charles imagines I am carried away by what he calls impulses, I did not answer your letter at once, and I have been thinking as much as I can. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)

[Transcriber's note: There are three pages (224-226) missing from the source document.] as not to awake him, the sleeping man shall dream of what has been so whispered in his ear; nay, I can assure you, those insinuating devils can do this even when we are awake, which I call impulses of the mind: for from whence, but from these insinuators, come our causeless passions, involuntary wickedness, or sinful desires? ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

The total movement of desire is not always stirred simultaneously with what we call the impulses to the satisfaction even of the lasting bodily demands; it may refuse assent to the idea of eating or drinking until reason gives the word: this shows us desire — the degree of it existing in the living body — advancing towards some object, with Nature [the lower soul-phase] refusing its co-operation and approval, and as sole arbiter between what is naturally fit and unfit, rejecting what does not accord with the natural need. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Basically the signals that tell the brain that we are being stroked on the skin have their own direct route to the brain, and are not blocked even if the brain is receiving pain impulses from the same area. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

Let me add another point: in reality, the upper limit on our lefty socializing impulses is probably a situational and competitive limit rather than an absolute one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The suit reads the tiny electrical impulses from the muscles, sending them to the onboard processor which in turn activates the corresponding servos in the suit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet the poetic commitment to life, the zeal to feel its impulses, is much stronger and more enduring than any contract linking any mortal to a legal system and to the many lawyers who make a living off those who think breaking the law is a way of life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Daniel Nemet-Nejat: John Sloss embodies the twin impulses of the Sundance Film Festival: He loves to nurture specialized films, and he thrives on the art of the deal. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To hear these women talk about sleeping with men for reasons that have nothing to do with sexual impulses is to understand something essential about women, and about why they have been so easily exploited by men for sex. ❋ Unknown (2007)

AO Scott on Georgia Rule: Working against its maudlin impulses with lively humor, and at the same time undercutting its laughs with some hard, ugly themes, this movie is neither a standard weepie nor a comforting dramedy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The researchers at the University of Pennsylvania came to that number by measuring spikes of electrical impulses from a (disembodied) guinea pig retina "looking" at movies of biological motion, like a salamander swimming. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For white female protagonists, the necessity of concealing and ultimately ridding the self of all uncontrolled desires and impulses is at the center of the drive toward achieving the virtue necessary to becoming a genteel wife — the end that is in store for virtually all heroines in all coming-of-age novels. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps these pieces answered certain impulses to define a chapter in her life, such as a love affair. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This tension between documentary and literary impulses is clearly evident in Williams's travel journal, which assimilates materials from a range of other writings on the Romantic ❋ Unknown (2002)

This "sixth sense" of the mesmerists, what the physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter called the elektrischer Ur-sinn, "established rapport with nature by picking up impulses from a magnetic, electrical, or vital power diffused throughout the universe" (48), much as Wordsworth will later in the poem establish, through a "sense sublime," rapport with "something far more deeply interfused." ❋ Unknown (1998)

And I always thought that using the power of the government to protect our natural heritage was not really a partisan deal, it was something we had all agreed upon that we had to do, because all of our short-term impulses sometimes have to be subordinated to the long-term good of the United States -- all of them, all of them do. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)

[impulse] [shopper] ❋ Iamxray (2009)

Man 1: Chris tried [to break] a beer [bottle] over his head at the party [the other night]. Man 2: He can be really impulsive sometimes. ❋ Deja_Vu (2008)

Person 1: Hey do you know impulse? Person 2: Yea, weird [community] but [I like] their BreenRP [Person 3]: Same ❋ DirectGaming (2020)

Usually I am not impulsive with throwing things … rip router. I do throw things at the younger colleagues, but is typically candy or a cloth snowball. They have learned I have [crummy] aim lol. If you only knew how much I love you! I am not the best at expresses it, but never doubt it!!!! If I write something that is questionable, ask!!! I guarantee you, there is nothing but love behind it. And if I went on [tangent] today for no reason… well, [that’s me]… and I am not willing to lose us!!! Guess what? Love you always ❤️❤️❤️ ❋ Dreams789 (2023)

OMFGOMFGOM ITS [IMPI]!! [Lets go] have a big [l33t] party with him! I want to sex him so much! ❋ Teh_D4_z0r (2005)

hey lee... did you see that [fat chick] [wack] the [impulse] out! ❋ Lewis123 (2007)

"Impulse? Those are [the faggots] who [wear] [caps] right?" ❋ ArVa (2014)

impulse hears [voices] [in his head] which make him say [retarded] shit. ❋ Dr. Popular (2003)

[i R] ImpUlZe ❋ Rifk (2003)

Did .[unf]! beat dr?<[gandalf]> no way man, [imp] played, he owns us ❋ Ron Jeremy (2003)