Quotes About Instinct

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

She grows up with a hidden, private flame inside her: it licks at her, warms her, warns her. You need to get away, the flame tells her. You must.

She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did

I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

Fame is the enemy of instinct and spontaneity, the difference between what is said and what ought to be said, and the transformation of one person into two

They have saddled the horses, They know not why, But they have saddled the horses at the end of the night

Sin palabras los seres humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos el juicio

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Mama zice ca dragostea se simte imediat ori deloc.

They are no longer human beings. I don't know any other way to describe them. There is something about them that causes an instinctive reaction of "wrong!" in normal people—

The bad news is if someone is charging you, it can take multiple shots before the collective trauma causes him to collapse. In the meantime, he can still potentially close the distance and bury a knife in your chest. That's known as the "Deadman's Ten" (when someone fatally wounded can still keep attacking anywhere from ten seconds up to two minutes).

Je venais de tomber dans mon propre passé. Fort heureusement, je connaissais bien les risques inhérents aux paradoxes temporels, et j'eus le bon réflexe de ne pas m'attarder.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

that form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves...

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

learn to live like the wild animals

One of the greatest tragedies of our time is that everyone is ripping off second hand thinking. We can liberate ourselves by trusting our own instinct and finding the thought-lenses which show us our world in the way we need to see it, that can calm and bring us home, and also challenge us.

When a person is at home in his life, he always has a clear instinct about the shape of outer situations; even in the midst of confusion he can discern the traces of a path forward.

We already know what buzzards do when they get mad. They throw up.

What drove these human killing machines?

Dunno, but my gut says we're onto something, and my gut doesn't lie," Shrake said. "There was that time with that Rudolph chick," Jenkins suggested. "That's because my dick overruled my gut, but my gut was telling me the truth," Shrake said. "What can I tell you?

Don't do that. Stay away." She was on the edge of fear. "Was he stronger?" "No. He was softer. His hands were soft. And when I relaxed, he relaxed. That's when I stamped on his instep." "Where'd you learn that?" "From my ex-husband's father. He taught me some self-defense things." "Come here." "No.

If you ever get in a situation where you need to shoot somebody, point the gun and keep pulling the trigger until it stops shooting. Forget about rules or excessive violence or any of that. Just keep pulling.