Irresistible Impulse Quotes

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.