Quotes About Instinct

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

She whispered Yes before she even thought.

By mid-afternoon, starving and dehydrated in the heat, he passed out on a plateau in the simmering sun. A few hours later he opened his eyes to an audience of gray wolves that came sniffing within arm's reach. He jumped to his feet, swatting one on the nose, and yelled at them — surprising himself at the sound of his own voice. They backed off as he hurled a stone at another, then they scattered and returned to howl mournfully at him.

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

The mother of any species is loving and tender toward her young but fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. What has happened to the female of our species?

She learned yet another critical fact, which is that those male animals have the good sense to interfere only with females in heat, but that men lack the sexual intelligence or instinct to leave their disinterested women alone.

My father was right. He told me once, The creatures want their lives. Every one of them. When this creature has an empty belly, he finds something to put in it. So, no need to worry.

Snakes, knives, strangers, darkening in the sky— you felt some things with your whole body. What they might mean.

Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.

the naturalness of an animal

Fue entonces cuando tuvo la idea de los espacios salvadores, la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto de la sociedad, sino diminutas ciudadelas levantadas a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio que resistían el asalto permanente de esa fuerza instintiva, violenta, obtusa, fea, destructora y bestial que dominaba el mundo y que ahora se había metido en su propio hogar.

I believe in friendship at first sight

la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto de la sociedad, sino diminutas ciudadelas levantadas a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio que resistían el asalto permanente de esa fuerza instintiva, violenta, obtusa, fea, destructora y bestial que dominaba el mundo

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

Carcharadon carcharias . Six thousand pounds of muscle powering a hoop of butcher's knives. The only animal that ate its weaker siblings in the womb. Immune from cancer. Constantly awake.

intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.

Zrobimy to, co zawsze robiÄ™ w takich sytuacjach, co robiÅ'em ju? sto razy, co automatycznie robi ka?dy, kto naprawdÄ™ zna góry. – To znaczy? – KatapultÄ™.

The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way. . . . They do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.

The urge to draw is unique to humans