A Quote by Jack Levine

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Jack Levine

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Come Days Hard Impulses These Days

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Jack Levine
American - Artist
Born: January 3, 1915

Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end

Meat Loaf

Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.

Rich Froning Jr.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Bertrand Russell

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

Clarence Thomas

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

J. M. Coetzee

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Mary Stewart

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Antoine Predock

It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.

Henry B. Eyring

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

Bonnie Bassler

'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

Katie Hafner

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.