Quotes About Instinct

Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan's physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater.

But a trick of the voice and the general body language was enough that I had a visceral desire to simply avoid him.

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.

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But if you bought into the idea that boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something that every

would draw P-38s as the scent of human flesh draws mosquitoes.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear

Contrary to the collective delusion thatMother Nature is a nurturing, caring entity that cradles and protects all its forms of life, Earth is instead a giant killing machine. Holding aside all the climatic and geologic forces that would just as soon have you dead, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, there's no end of creatures that want to suck your blood, inject you with venom, infect your physiology, or simply eat you.

Ma knew what was goin' on. She could tell if there was salt missin' from a pretzel.

Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.

I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;

weather forecast that it was going to be rough and had taken a pill. Miss Abbott was tramping up and down the narrow lower deck, having, perhaps instinctively, hit upon that part of the ship which after the first few hours is deserted by almost everyone. In the plan shown to passengers it was called the promenade deck. It was Jemima who first noticed the break in the weather. A kind of thin warmth fell across the page of her book;

the pairing instinct is the great remover of the limits between individuals

What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don't quite understand but shouldn't be underestimated.…

and one of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been

Follow your heart

All the talented and smart actors, they get it: as soon as it comes out of their mouth, they know if it's right or wrong. If the writing has a particular voice, they get it, and they can hit it.

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I've been following my intuition and what moves me.