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Quotes About Instinct

With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!
~ Paul Levine
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.
~ Paul Rusesabagina
When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.
~ Unknown
We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of.
~ Unknown
frightened people shriek the loudest and fire at random.
~ Paul Scott
I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird
~ Paul Theroux
Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks out through your toe. What are they for, moose antlers? Get down on all fours and live. You're protected on your hands and knees. It's either that or wings.
~ Paul Theroux
She let them go all night and in the mornings would find them coming toward her where she slept, with that alert and nervous air unridden horses always have at dawn. They are remembering some far time when predators came for them at first light. So they came toward her with the strange and painful air of fallen angels, treading carefully and slowly as if the earth were foreign soil.
~ Paulette Jiles
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
~ Paulo Coelho
With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
~ Paulo Coelho
everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.
~ Paulo Coelho
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
~ Paulo Coelho
Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
~ Paulo Coelho
I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm a cornered tiger with nowhere to run; the only option that remains is to attack.
~ Paulo Coelho
My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.
~ Paulo Coelho
The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, He's mad. Or, He lives in a fantasy world. Or even, How can he possibly believe in such illogical things? But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.
~ Paulo Coelho
The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.
~ Paulo Coelho
Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.
~ Unknown
Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.
~ Veronica Rossi
Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.
~ Unknown
Anger is action without thoughts.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
~ Robert Capa
Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.
~ Horace Pippin