Quotes About Instinct

For people like me, the fight-or-flight instinct comes out in the desperate desire to fix, people-please, and create harmony.

Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.

To use the skills nature had given you was necessary, as a horse must run, or a bird must fly. It

twitched. "For

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Sometime in the far future there may be such a leader. He will reduce man to the nakedness and fear from which he came. And we shall feed upon him effortlessly as we have always done, and the Savage Garden, as you call it, will cover the world.

Stop looking at my buttons,' Lestat said. 'Go out there into the trees. Rid yourself of all the human waste in your body, and don't fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way!

L'istinto potente del vampiro per cui anche il più impercettibile cambiamento nell'espressione del volto umano ha l'evidenza di un gesto. Lestat aveva un tempismo sovrannaturale.

Do what it is your nature to do. This is but a taste of it. Do what it is your nature to do.

His sweet delectable human scent was strong and suddenly I saw him divorced from all I knew him. I saw him as prey.

Do dogs smell fear? Vampires smell it. Vampires count on it. Vampires find it savory. Vampires can't resist it.

I felt a savage rush of love for her, an impulse for her safety so primal and deep that it might have sprung from my womb.

She should feel sick. Horrified, stunned. But the horrible truth was, she felt fine. He killed. He killed to protect her. And some ancient, atavistic streak inside her wanted to preen and purr. She was one sick puppy.

Why did you save Mahmoud? Killian's voice was so low she almost didn't hear him. Instinct, she muttered sleepily. I certainly wasn't about to save you His laugh vibrated through his leg, through her body. Of course not. Mahmoud's grateful.

Are you certain we're going in the right direction?" He let out an irritated growl. "I'm not certain of anything. I was going on instinct." "Instinct being that you do the opposite of what I suggest?

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.

Let's kill a rabbit," Col says when he wakes up.

It's wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.