Quotes About Instinct

I thought I was imagining things. I thought my fears were getting the better of me." "That instinct? It's called self-preservation. You're supposed to listen to it.

My instinct is always to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.

When uncomfortable, my instinct is not to avoid the discomfort but to become at peace with it.

I held my ground, because prey retreats, and hunger follows anything that runs.

Technology would never advance past primal fear. It would never trump human instinct.

I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

La falta de fe en los hombres, el mezquino instinto que los impulsaba a buscar garantías, aun en la caridad.

En qué momento dejamos de ser los cazadores para convertirnos en presas?

pero intuye un peligro, al igual que los perros cuando sus dueños se preparan para salir de casa y dejarlos solos durante

You need to play a little hard to get. No man appreciates what comes too easily. It's the caveman thing. We like to hunt.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

It is impossible to deny a woman in a feeding mood. It is as if they look right through you, to that small, weak part that has been there since you were a baby and that doesn't know how to defy authority.

Love isn't like a roast turkey that is or is not ready. It simply IS, and you must let it guide you.

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

She figured out that the only way to keep from being frozen was to stay in motion, and long ago converted most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she smells danger, she spills herself all over, like gasoline, and lights it.

Retten will man eigentlich immer nur sich selbst. Was variiert, ist das Wovor.

Die Natur ist pragmatisch. Jedes Tier ist pragmatisch. Der Mensch ist es dort, wo ihm die Ideen ausgegangen sind.

Im Wald gab es Töten ohne Hass, Fortpflanzung ohne Liebe, Kooperation ohne Gesetze, Ernährung ohne Wissenschaft und Lebensfreude ohne Philosophie.

Ein Tier muss an nichts glauben außer an den unsinnigen Sinn des Überlebens. Allein, der pragmatische Mensch unterscheidet sich vom pragmatischen Tier in einer bedeutenden Einzelheit. Sein Spieltrieb erlischt nicht mit dem Eintritt der Geschlechtsreife. Sein Spieltrieb lebt ewig.