Quotes About Instinct

My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.

KierowaÅ'a siÄ™ wówczas instynktem, a jej instynkt nie miaÅ' nic wspólnego z altruizmem. Na wojnie altruiÅ›ci nie ?yli dÅ'ugo.

I wonder,' Trull said as he watched the momentary stand-off, 'if this is how domestication first began. Not banding together in a hunt for prey, but in an elimination of rival predators.

A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We'd never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. 'I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.' 'Me too.' 'And that's why we're still alive.' 'Aye.

A nose in the air just made it easier to cut the throat beneath it. And when it came to that choice, why, he never hesitated. As sure as any force of Nature.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

the mind evolved to support our ability to act effectively.

Instinctively, he reached for his knife, fumbled fro fractions of a second with the thong of a purse, tore it loose. He stabbed frantically at the thing that surrounded him, tore the blade through cloth and hair and flesh. One part fell away, a languid, dead flailing of limbs and hair. The other gripped him, and even though he had stabbed a limb, would not release him.

Whatever my jaded heart feels, my instinctive desire to survive is much stronger.

His honest feeling was that he wanted to lean against Varian's legs, like a dog needing the comfort of its master's hand. Rather than perform a series of social manoeuvers, he simply obeyed the instinct and sat down. The fact that he felt relaxed doing this surprised him greatly.

Eva's instinct was to flinch away from the demand for truth in Lily's hot eyes.

He felt a little like the keeper of an unpredictable wild beast, beautiful in its unchained splendour, purring and rubbing against him, but able to turn on him without warning.

I released myself to the flow of the world's rhythm, not struggling to search, but simply letting my instinct guide me.

The right of the labour movement, to be honest, has no ideas of any compelling quality, except the instinct for short-term political survival. It would not know an ideological struggle if it stumbled across one in the dark. The only 'struggle' it engages in with any trace of conviction is the one against the left.

Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.

I'd never been one to believe in my powers of intuition. I always thought it was more like guessing and a certain amount of the time you were right, and other times, you weren't.

WPC Buchan might not know much about art, but she knew what gave her the fucking willies, and these things took the hairy biscuit.

He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted . It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away. You don't enjoy the aspirin