Quotes About Instinct

The heart knows nothing, sees nothing, but it kicks up a ruckus, throws tantrums to get what it wants.

In the animal kingdom, the male performs for the woman, woos her with his beautiful feathers or flowing mane, is always trying to out-strut the other men. Why do humans do it the other way? It doesn't make sense. Men need us more than we need them.

It's at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least.

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

I feel the animal within me emerging, Princess. It's raw and uncontained, but it wants to please you. If we wait . . ." His chin dropped, his voice too. "I cannot hurt you, do you understand?

Ruby froze as she looked into the friendly green eyes of Baby Face Marshall. And the words of Agent Blacker came shooting back to her. If you see Baby Face, don't bother calling for Mommy, run!

The last thing I want to do is harm her. Especially now. She's in me. I breathed her in. I kissed her and took a good long taste. This is not just a female I enjoy. This one is so much more than that. My beast has chosen and the man seems to agree.

I know what pheromones are! But that's mumbo jumbo. You're just horny, I'm just horny. It's not science.

When something needs to be fixed, when I need something to change, my first and abiding instinct is to read. I think I can read my way to a solution. Or at least an evasion.

her. In a blink of those lashes, their tusks could reduce her limbs to bloody ribbons.

To urinate, they simply stood and faced the ocean wherever they could be sure that the wind would

His first instinct was to have both men executed; this was, after all, Cartagena's third attempt at mutiny

Emotion is an instinctive response aimed at self-preservation.

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death.

To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.

Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food.

The thing most feared in secret always happens… All it needs is a little courage. The more the pain grows clear and definite, the more the instinct for life asserts itself and the thought of suicide recedes. It seemed easy when I thought of it. Weak women have done it. It needs humility not pride. I am sickened by all this. Not words. Action. I shall write no more.

If it is true that a man marries, for preference, his opposite (the "law of life"), that is because we have an instinctive horror of being tied to someone who displays the same defects and idiosyncrasies as ourselves. The reason is obviously that defects and idiosyncrasies, discovered in someone near to us, rob us of the illusion-which we formerly fostered-that in ourselves they would be eccentricities, excusable because of their originality.

You, instinctively, as a girl, have very, uh, strange, supernatural, magical powers that we don't understand.

When a dog is about to rest it often tramps round and round the spot on which it is to recline. Naturalists explain this as the survival of an instinct which in the wild dog served the useful function of guarding it against the presence of harmful creatures hidden in the grass.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, my first instinct is a sort of stupid ducking motion I've learned from the movies, and I have the sure sense I'm going to be shot in the neck, where I feel particularly exposed and vulnerable.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.