Quotes About Instinct

Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey.

Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.

Afterward we drove out to the Hanford Reservation and ran as a wolf and coyote through the open terrain. He didn't have Samuel's ability to throw off all his humanity and revel in the joy of being a wild thing. Instead, he played with the same intensity he used for everything. Which meant that when I chase him, I wasn't really sure I wanted to catch him - and when he chased me, I felt like a rabbit.

That swipe had more in common with a bear's attack than a timber wolf's. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.

They have no more," Sherwood said, his eyes wolf-bright and his voice nearly guttural.

It is difficult for a chicken to make an alliance with a fox--you never know when you'll be eaten for breakfast.

I won't lie to you about how I feel. The thought of having children who won't die before they are born is powerful. But you should know that the wolf in me doesn't care about such things. He only wants you.

Interesting, thought Brother Wolf, seeing wounded prey. An easy meal.

Instinct," he told her, "is most often right.

A beast feels no remorse for the past nor hope for the future.

he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

We must set out, often without a destination, with only the instinct to search as a direction. Literature and religion are predicated on the notion of journey, movement—pilgrimage it's called in religion, plot in literature.

To respond to a question or start improvised scenes, begin immediately using the first words that come to you. Trust your mind. Your first thought is a reasonable starting place; it is good enough. Don't hesitate. Once you begin speaking, you have something to work with and build on. With the first-thought method it is as if the idea selects you rather than the other way around. The improviser focuses on making that idea into a good one, rather than searching for a "good idea.

All animals must have the basic circuitry for self-care, or they will fail to survive long enough to reproduce. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, the range of myself was extended to include my babies .

Were I a solitary creature like a salamander, none of this would trouble me. I would have no moral conflicts, no social conscience. I would feed and mate and lay my eggs. I would not fret about other salamanders, not even those hatching from my very own eggs. I would see to my own needs, and care not a whit for others. But I am a mammal, and like other mammals, I have a social brain. I am wired to care, especially about those I am attached to.

men hunt by pretending to be the brothers of the prey they seek, and women hunt by impersonating the mothers of their prey.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...

What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did.

Mis mayores éxitos fueron producto de decisiones que tomé cuando dejé de pensar e hice sencillamente lo que me parecía correcto.

Una llamada de ayuda atrae a los depredadores como el olor de la sangre transportado por el viento.