Quotes About Instinct

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee

She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

Lion dies with hungry but never eats grass

The difference between a man and a woman is whether to ask for directions.

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

If all else fails, stop drop and roll..works for me..:)

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.