Impulse Control

Famous quotes containing the words impulse and/or control:

“God once spoke to people by name.
The sun once imparted its flame.
One impulse persists as our breath;
The other persists as our faith.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.