Quotes About Instinct

People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

The reason as to why birds never get knocked my air crafts is that they when they hear the sound of the air crafts they run for their lives

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

It doesn't matter how old you are, what level of schooling you've had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We've all been there.

Instead of answering, I just wrapped my arms around him and kissed him for all I was worth. Because when you meet The One, you just know.

Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.

Please trust me." I narrowed my eyes at her, instinctively looking for an ulterior motive, but found only genuine concern and a small gleam of excitement in her eyes. For some reason I wanted to trust her. Well, crap. Day, Kristen (2014-09-22). Forsaken (Book #1) (Daughters of the Sea) (p. 27). Kristen Day Books. Kindle Edition.

her toes, then jerked the foot back.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

Instinctively, she lifted her camera and minimized her view of the world. It was how she managed her memories, how she processed the world. In pictures. With a camera, she could crop and reframe her life.

an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.

Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution.

Leadership is something I was born with.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

You finish sending a text and relax your arms and lower your legs and when animals open up like that, they want to fuck.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. Fire harkens back to our wilder selves, the parts we let out only when we think no one is looking.

The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

If an animal is designed by nature to have claws it ought to keep them, and if men come with quirks that they are incapable of changing, well, a certain amount of quietude and even peace can be achieved by just realizing that it's all inherent in the beast. [p. 173]

I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.

If she speaks, it will only be a pleasant word or two; should she have anything important to say, the moment will be after tea, not before it; this she knows by instinct.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.