Quotes About Instinct

In fact, his adult brain acted like his adolescent brain used to. It stopped functioning. All it wanted to do was wrap itself around the owner of that scent and purr.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

What does it mean to be psychic? Essentially it means to feel, rather than think all the time.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

sometimes we have no choice but to be selfish if we are to . . . survive" Excerpt From Someone to Hold

Without even realizing it, he had come running to her.

Elizabeth's fingers itched to slap him. She could recall now the stinging satisfaction she had had from doing so on a previous occasion.

A hawk reeled overhead with a rodent squirming in its beak, close enough so you could see the bird's black shiny eyes.

Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Some things are unchangeably wild, others are stolidly tame. The tiger is wild, and the coyote, and the owl. I am tame, you are tame. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. But the dog lives in both worlds.

There is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted --

This is what primate sex hormones do: "They make individuals perceive other individuals as more attractive than they'd normally perceive them." Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.

Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.