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Quotes About Instinct

If you ain't scared... you ain't human.
~ James Dashner
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone.
~ James Dickey
It scares me shitless," I admitted. (The "scared shitless" metaphor derives from the physiological fact that animals in stressful situations-an antelope pursued by a lion, for example-involuntarily defecate to shed excess weight, thus speeding their flight.)
~ James Geary
You tried to stick your cock in his mouth." "I panicked. I thought it might be my only chance.
~ James Lear
There is some primal instinct in the human male that drives us to communal pissing, and it's a phenomenon of which I'm very fond.
~ James Lear
As usual, I was letting my dick do the thinking.
~ James Lear
Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.
~ James Luceno
When society is unveiled, when we see that it is whatever we want it to be, that it is a species of culture with nothing necessary in it, by no means a phenomenon of nature or a manifestation of instinct, nature is no longer shaped and fitted into one or another set of societal goals. Unveiled, we stand before a nature whose only face is its hidden self-origination: its genius.
~ James P. Carse
Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
~ James Paul Gee
Sin'jari didn't give her a chance to formulate a plan. He lunged at her. But years of karate training and four older brothers had honed her reflexes.
~ James Rollins
Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge. "Anton
~ James Rollins
As Tesla once stated, instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
~ James Rollins
Pemakan daging manusia
~ James Rollins
shoot anybody that comes into view." "what about you?" "no, don't shoot me.
~ James Rollins
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
~ James Rollins
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
~ James Thurber
Nature red in tooth and claw.' Perhaps she doesn't
~ Donna Tartt
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
~ Doris Lessing
The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
~ Doris Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
Women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create a man.
~ Doris Lessing
This may be animal behaviour, I don't know, but it is certainly human behaviour, when humans allow themselves to revert to barbarism, and has been for thousands, probably even millions of years -- depending on where one decides to put the beginning of our history as humans, not animals.
~ Doris Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
~ Dorothea Lange