Quotes About Instinct

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

If a man is a beast, he's a beast in his heart, and that's not the kind of heart that beats in you.

When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed.

So you see, if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry- be assured, zoo animals are amply fed- or because it's blood thirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Cum o fi oare sentimentul de singur?tate la animale?

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

All the saddle horses, and even some of the pack animals, were affected by the scent of the wild herd. Freedom still lived deep down in their hearts. That was why a broken horse, no matter how gentle, became the wildest of the wild when he got free.

wild men in wild places, fighting cold, heat, starvation, thirst, barrenness, facing the elements in all their ferocity, usually retrograded, descended to the savage, lost all heart and soul and became mere brutes.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

I kind of don't like to prepare too much for anything in advance.

I think I was born with this aggressive game inside me.

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

I'm a real animal. I'm an animal.

Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

We're all animals.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

I really think some people have an aptitude for being parents while others don't.

At each sentence my hostess put her head forward, looking at me with an innkeeper's keen scrutiny, a happy compromise between the instinct of a police constable, the astuteness of a spy, and the cunning of a dealer.

c?ci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din na?tere: ca ?i înv???tura mult?, be?ia îl îngra?? pe cel gras ?i îl sl?be?te pe cel slab.

Los ojos comparan antes de que el corazón haya rectificado este rápido y maquinal juicio.

Besides, his tact had discovered to him the real nature of Delphine; he divined instinctively that she was capable of stepping over her father's corpse to go to the ball; and within himself he felt that he had neither the strength of mind to play the part of mentor, nor the strength of character to vex her, nor the courage to leave her to go alone.

La canoa se deslizaba costeando el bosque, o lo que podía parecer bosque en aquella oscuridad. Más por instinto que por indicio alguno Subercasaux sentía