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Quotes About Instinct

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget.
~ William Osier
Every animal is sad after intercourse.
~ Latin proverb
Girls are much more psychic than guys. They're the first to know if you're going to get laid.
~ Paul Rodriguez
Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.
~ Buddhist Proverb
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
~ Saki
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
~ Stephen Leacock
The finer impulse of our nature.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
~ J. G. Holland
I don't know anything but the simplest rules of English grammar, and I seldom consciously apply them. Nevertheless, I instinctively write correctly and, I like to think, in an interesting fashion. I know when something sounds right and when it doesn't, and I can tell the difference without hesitation, even when writing at breakneck speed. How do I do this? I haven't the faintest idea.
~ Issac Asimov
Tako im prolazi no? i sa njom život, sav od opasnosti i stradanja, ali jasan, nepokolobeljiv i prav u sebi. Vo?eni drevnim i nasle?enim nagonima, oni ga cepkaju i dele na trenutne utiske i neposredne potrebe, gube?i se potpuno u njima. Jer jedino tako, žive?i svaki trenutak odvojeno i ne gledaju?i ni napred ni natrag, može se ovakav život podneti i živ ?ovek sa?uvati za bolje dane.
~ Ivo Andri?
He was hitting on you, however." "Reflex, not targeted." "Agreed, which is why he lives.
~ J.D. Robb
Some people just like to kill. Sometimes it's not any more complicated than that." "It should be," Peabody replied
~ J.D. Robb
But old habits die hard.
~ J.D. Robb
From my seat, stupid's not listening to your gut.
~ J.D. Robb
Dog accepts punish as something fair... No other animal will accept the punish just because it follows it's instinct.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Follow your own nature.
~ J.M. Coetzee
and they had the suitcase with them. Come on, we're going to do it now, said Drummond. Reid asked why. There's just a time when you instinctively know it is right, Cauty replied. The plan had been to get up early on the morning of
~ J.M.R. Higgs
Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.
~ J.R. Ward
Giving in to a shrill instinct, she ran around the side of the building. Butch was marching toward his car as if he were carrying an unstable load, and she rushed to catch up with them. "Wait. I need to ask him a question." "You want to know his shoe size or something?" Butch snapped. "Fourteen," Wrath drawled. "I'll remember that at Christmas, asshole.
~ J.R. Ward
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was something you developed early -- and even Qhuinn, who was the object of the protective instinct the Chosen was rocking, wouldn't have dared touch her.
~ J.R. Ward