Quotes About Instinct

JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history.

When you feel hungry, drink a glass or two of water first, to see if that's really what your body wants.

Decisions make themselves when you're coming downhill at seventy kilometres an hour. Suddenly there's the edge of nothingness in front of you. Swerve left? Swerve right? Or think about it and die? In your head you swerve both ways …" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch.

When a little voice inside of you tells you to duck, you should duck first, and then worry about where the voice is coming from.

Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.

You cook with your senses," he said when someone did something stupid. "And one of those senses is common sense.

Plainly stated, I believe consciousness is an instinct.

Humans were never meant to be vegetarian," Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That's what people do, kill the things they're afraid of.

Your body knows in all its parts, when 'used to' starts, when nothing will ever be the way it's been. Your body knows first. Takes your 'you' weeks to catch up.

Do nothing" had long been viewed as an unacceptable position of helplessness by American foreign policy experts. The instinct to do something was driven by the desire to prove you were not limited to nothing. You couldn't do nothing and show strength.

this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.

we instinctively zero in on dangers that are unusual or immediate, while paying much less attention to hazards that unfold more slowly or in a more familiar way.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.

Animals live without feeling the least need of justification, as do the crushing majority of men. They live because they live, and then I suppose they die because they die, and for them that's all there is to it.

las mujeres inteligentes siempre me la han puesto dura. La verdad es que la inteligencia no es muy útil en las relaciones sexuales, sólo sirve más o menos para una cosa: saber en qué momento hay que ponerle la mano en la polla al hombre en los lugares públicos. A todos los hombres les gusta eso, es la dominación del mono, residuos de ese tipo, sería una estupidez hacer caso omiso; sólo queda elegir el lugar y el momento.

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.