Quotes About Instinct

A woman I know gave me a build-it-yourself bird-feeder kit for Christmas, so I built it, and hung it from the eve of my roof high enough to keep the birds save from my cat. But the birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck and eat the seed. They know there's a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often like this, too.

If you have the kind of intelligence and instinct that will point you in the right direction, playing the rebel will not be dangerous. But if you are mediocre ... you are better off learning from your predecessor's knowledge and experience, which are based on something real.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803–1882

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if attacked. . . . A powerful desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their . . . endowment. —Sigmund Freud

I doona need drugs. I am naturally a mean bastard.

When adrenaline does our thinking for us, our motives flow with the chemical tide.

Mendimet me arratisen instiktivisht drejt teje.

I think my water just broke.' I took an instinctive step back. Because, gross. 'Omigod.

Death and blood didn't turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

A mammal never forgets a bad scare; and they were mammals.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

There was so much more going on than any one person could know, reality was so much bigger than the self, that it was alarming to contemplate. This explained the error: one felt the vastness and shrunk in on oneself like a snail's horns, instinctively trying to protect one's mind. And yet there was no real harm in it, this contact with the larger reality.

While I had no intention of hooking up with him, I still wanted him to want to hook up with me. It was the principle of the thing, after all.

Rogers} sexual aim is "to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of these: to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.

A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

vi var salige som vilde dyr med hverandre. Vi lå og sov sammen i vår undergang. Når vi våknet sa vi ikke noget, vi bare reiste os og gik, når en reiste sig og gik kom den andre efter. Vi hørte sammen på en vei og gik efter hverandre.

Yabani bir hayvan?n içgüdüselliÄŸini tetikleyen itkilerin tamam?, yaratt?klar? etki itibar?yla, her zaman için, hayvan?n ve onun ait olduÄŸu türün lehine sonuçlanma zorunluluÄŸu ta??r. Onun yaÅŸam alan?nda doÄŸal eÄŸilimler ile zorunluluklar aras?nda bir çat??k? yoktur, içten gelen her dürtü 'iyi'dir. Ä°nsanoÄŸlu bu cennetsi uyumu kaybetti.

Pero no se comprende tan claramente cómo semejante ritualización es en el hombre fruto de la transmisión histórica de un pueblo, mientras que en el animal representa un desarrollo filogenético de formas de movimiento innatas y hereditarias.

Gli uccelli allevati in isolamento, che non hanno mai visto un loro simile, nella maggior parte dei casi non <> a quale specie appartengono, e perciò il loro istinto sociale e il loro desiderio sessuale si rivolgono verso le creature con le quali hanno trascorso determinate fasi evolutive particolarmente importanti: quindi, nella maggior parte dei casi, vero l'uomo.

What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin? Try to. Love to...