Quotes About Instinct

Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

You don't smoke do you? No, why? They're afraid of fire. Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

There will always be victims, Anita. Predators and prey, it is the way of the world.

My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.

Everything wants to live, Newman, even monsters.

I had never yet had to try to fast draw a knife from a thigh sheath. It was probably going to look vaguely obscene, but if it kept me alive . . . hey, I can take a little embarrassment.   B

My lioness was crouched inside me, ready to spring, but would that hurt me more than him? "It means I can feed on things besides sex, and I'm trying very hard not to feed on you." "I know you are trying not to have sex with me." Great. It was like he'd edited what I'd said and heard only the sex part. I should have known he would.

Bert's dog smelled nature or history and began to tremble.

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

My dear man, every woman has felt herself surrounded by foxes at one time or another, if not by wolves.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.