Quotes About Instinct

First we feel. Then we fall.

Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.

First we feel. Then we fall. — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake .( Faber and Faber November 4, 2002) Originally published May 4th 1939.

I also smell it on you.

We serve nature's purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm!

Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn't dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud to see the instant blood-lust pop into Gazzy's blue eyes and to see little Angel automatically tense up and get into fighting stance, ready to rip someone's head off. They were just so — so dang adorable, sometimes.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.

It wasn't because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride's more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full of snacks.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." In other words, trust your gut.

Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

walking food source.

Even wolves have moments of kindness.

They say our sense of smell is our most primal, the one that can hit us the hardest, because it comes from the deepest part of the brain.

away as he'd watched the Neanderthal

I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.

There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.