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Quotes About Instinct

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
~ Valentine de Saint-Point
I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen.
~ Jim Carrey
God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
~ Margaret Mead
A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.
~ Christopher Titus
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
~ Alex Comfort
Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
~ Elizabeth Riddell
Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
~ Helen Fisher
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
~ Helen Fisher
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
~ John Stuart Mill
Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he's not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.
~ Julie Klausner
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
~ Katherine Heigl
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.
~ Kevin Hart
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.
~ Nelly Mazloum
Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
~ Paula Wall
There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of it, faster than any man will. If you really want to know... It's just the way it is.
~ Rush Limbaugh
People are far more protective [of women] instinctively.
~ Zoe Bell
Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
~ Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron
Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.
~ Nikki Rowe
Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.
~ A.H. Septimius