Quotes About Instinct

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

If kids don't take to a person, I always feel they have inside knowledge that we don't have. They suss people out much easier.

Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.

Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Love is nature's way of bypassing reason.

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. Youre wise if you dont stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- youll stick your finger in anything.

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling 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...

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

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