Quotes About Instinct

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La montagne, la mer, la forêt, font des hommes sauvages. Elles développent le côté farouche, mais souvent sans détruire le côté humain.

They upheld everything till the day when they overthrew everything. Their instinct was to give a decisive push to everything that tottered. In their eyes, as they had been brought into service on condition that there should be solidity, to waver was to betray them. They were numbers, they were force, they were fear. Hence the daring of baseness.

Il faut être mangeant ou mangé.

Like geese," she whispered into the tiny, shell-pink ear, "their babies imprint on the mama in the first sighting and never forget.

They just had to muddle along and live in the world presented to them, confused a lot of the time because nothing made sense, but certain of their subterranean place on the food chain.

She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans—it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.

Well, my heart knows me better than I know myself so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

The right thing to do is always the one that only your heart can give the answer.

Some instinct older than civilization was telling her to run, to flee. She didn't move.

Mary-Lynnette had an inexplicable impulse to knock Ash flat and fall down on top of him. She'd never felt that for any boy before.

No le sorprendió, tampoco, sentir una doble perforacIón en la garganta al echar la cabeza atrás: su preciosa pantera sólo estaba un poco domesticada en realidad, y necesitaba aprender algunas cosas básicas sobre la etiqueta de las citas, por ejemplo, que uno besa antes de morder.

Nic dziwnego, ?e jest rozgrywaj?cym, pomy?la?a. Ja bym po prostu rzuci?a si? na o?lep, z wrzaskiem.

It was, after all, the natural order of things. Animals killed weaker animals. Humans killed animals. I killed humans. Every species had their foe. I shuddered to think what monster was powerful enough to hunt me.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.

Oh, Hell. Must. Mate. Immediately.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

Las mariposas en el estómago-suspiró Karou-Claro. ¿Sabes lo que pienso? Que las mariposas están siempre ahí, en el estómago de todos, en todo momento... - ¿Cómo bacterias? - No, no como bacterias, como mariposas. Y las de cada uno reaccionan con determinadas personas, a nivel químico, como feromonas, así cuando esas personas se acercan, tus mariposas empiezan a bailar. No pueden evitarlo, es una reacción química.

The things that made thier pulse quicken were all the wrong thing..

My life is blood because my world is beasts.

as if hate were an atavism just waiting to resurface.