Quotes About Instinct

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.

How she does stare! It's odd what a savage feeling I have to anything that seems afraid of me.

Me parecía, instintivamente, que su reserva debía proceder de que era enemigo de dejar traslucir sus emociones. Debía de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien le amase o le odiase, a su vez.

I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.

A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass – And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass – ...

Il troppo mi urta - è così insolito. Mi sentivo a disagio, spaesata - come una bacca di fratta montana trapiantata sulla strada. E non avevo fame. Allora capii che la fame è un istinto di chi guarda le vetrine dal di fuori. L'entrare, la disperde.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

You must feel an almost pathological need—understandably—to stand guard between your son and the world." "Yeah, it's called being a mother." Ma nearly snarls it.

Evolution protects those who protect themselves.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

I feel him near in the twist of me guts. It's something I've always been able to do. --The Reluctant Assassin

history has taught us that it is unwise to wager against a protective mother, as often the universe sides with this particular energy.

He was the point dog, sent in to check for hostiles. His orders were simple. Bite everything. If it screamed, it was hostile.

Mulch's beard hairs curled in apprehension. And as his grandmother always said, Trust the hair, Mulch, trust the hair.

Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.

The possession of a particular talent is instinctively sensed by its owner; [31] so if any of you are so blessed you will be the first to know it. [32] It is true, however, that no bull reaches maturity in an instant, nor do men become heroes overnight. We must endure a winter training, and can't be dashing into situations for which we aren't yet prepared.

Consider how we apply the idea of freedom to animals. [25] There are tame lions that people cage, raise, feed and take with them wherever they go. Yet who will call such a lion free? The easier its life, the more slavish it is. No lion endowed with reason and discretion would choose to be one of these pet specimens.

Dumnezeu e zgarcit. -Sa zicem ca face economie. Ii cunoaste bine pe oameni, de vreme ce el i-a facut. Stie ca cei mai multi nu gandesc, ci se multumesc sa mearga cu turma. Din pricina ca nu cugeta, rumega si tot rumega. Turma e guvernata de instinctul gregar.

People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.

Not with all his brain development can man tell how a bird or an animal can be crated, taken miles away in darkness, and when released, strike back towards its home. Man only knows that animals can do what he can neither do himself nor explain.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.