Quotes About Instinct

Telling Grace not to worry was like asking a fish not to swim

All along, he had believed instinctually that his broken heart had something to do with the collapse of culture. He wanted to blame it on economics instead of on the fact that she was a fucking bitch.

I'm like a weather-vane, I start twitching when the wind's on the turn.

There'll be tricks, tonight. I can sense it. I've a feeling for it now. I'm like a weather-vane, I start twitching when the wind's on the turn.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

War is the true Nature of the world, a dog with matted fur lapping eagerly at the bloody Nile, wagging its threadbare tail the entire time.

Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink - blindly and of necessity, under domination of an irresistible force.

Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink—blindly and of necessity, under domination of an irresistible force." Jacques Anatole Thibault

If you feel strongly that someone is watching you, that's because they probably are. Your brain has a primal gaze detection system that determines whether someone is staring directly at you or not.

Nature's a pure, heartless bitch.

The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

species that "fear rightly" increase their chances of survival. We anxious people are less likely to remove ourselves from the gene pool by, say, frolicking on the edge of cliffs or becoming fighter pilots.

Horror is a lot like sex," Moore continued. "It's raw and it's primal and when it's good—when it's really good—it even hurts a little. But the good kind of pain, you know?

Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's in trouble.