Quotes About Instinct

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

believed in honour but in instinct too, in impulsiveness and defiance and throwing caution to the wind. She would never have wanted him to choose convention over the call of his own heart.

I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

In no sense an intellectual, I write with my body.

Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência.

This is not a lament, it's the cry of a bird of prey.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Creo que cada uno de nosotros llega a la verdad que puede tolerar. Y, parado allí, no se atreve a dar otro paso. Es un límite que pone nuestro propio instinto de conservación.

There is/no reasoning with need.

Do not just jump into the water when you cannot clearly see everything beneath the surface. Eyes are easily deceived what instinct can only sense.

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

More powerful than drugs, than God or death or fear itself, are stories. With less instinct than any flatworm, we look for them to tell us what to do, how to behave, how we're going to end up. There're plenty of atheists in foxholes, but none without a personal mythology that gives them meaning. When life seems long and meaningless, stories make it short and exciting, make every accident into a test, into enemy action, into a Plot.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

She became aware of his hands, moving up both sides of her, sliding up from her waist to her rib cage. Bad news. Instinctively she knew that it was "either-or." Either she opened her mouth and let the mad tongue in--or he was going to, sure as God made little apples, grab her little apples. The choice, she knew, was hers--for he lingered there, simultaneously, in both areas of combat, as if to say, "You have five seconds, take your pick.

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Instinct's not a superpower. It's made of experience and memory and belief.