Quotes About Instinct

The female of species is deadlier than the male.

conspecific aggression,

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

Alderpaw realized that he was gaping like a blackbird chick waiting for food.

Yellowfang crouched among the thorns with Deerleap on one

Owl Eyes leaped onto a caterpillar, squashing it flat. "I killed it!" he announced proudly. "I can hunt!

taste of the matted

Well, you can't see, mouse-brain! Jaypaw felt his neck fur bristling at the stupid question. "Everything's dark. But I can hear and scent okay, so that's how I find my way around.

Toklo!" Lusa shrieked. "Do something! They're going to kill Taqqiq!" We should be so lucky, Toklo thought

I had to," Slate purred. "I couldn't let anything happen to the father of my kits.

No kit is too young to learn good hunting skills." Gray

We must all follow our hearts," he murmured.

neatly tucking into a mouse

Just then the beaver reared up and flicked Lionblaze off;

You can't tell a cat what his heart should feel.

There's more than one cat who would rip his throat out for a couple of mousetails.

be angry with him," Ravenpaw meowed. "That's good thinking, Crowpaw. Thinking like a warrior, in fact. Where you're going, you must trust nothing and no cat without very good reason.

life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

AA 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.