Quotes About Instincts

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.

She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.

A sacrament - like marriage - means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Don't rely on anybody. Friends can lead and mislead you. Trust yourself and listen to your instincts.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

The firelight cast harsh shadows over his rugged face, and those eyes glittered raw emerald green. His breath brushed her lips with the scent of wine and mint. "I've tried to go easy on you, to be gentle and give you time to trust me, but I see now that you have the instincts of a pinecone.

As for those among you who do have the genes, who do have the instincts, and who could be highly successful, well, I still hope you won't follow my advice. Because that would just make it a much tougher world for me.

We don't like to admit it," said Julian, "but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people—the ancients no less than us—have civilized themselves through the willful repression of the old, animal self.

Real love is hard. Forgetting yourself for another. Love is like fighting uphill against all of your worst instincts.

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

So the human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don't live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.

So the human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don't live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.

Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history. On too many days, beginning in the early hours, he flaunts his disdain for democratic institutions, the ideals of equality and social justice, civil discourse, civic virtues, and America itself. If transplanted to a country with fewer democratic safeguards, he would audition for dictator, because that is where his instincts lead.

Instead he discouraged his cabinet from proposing any idea that might cause him to doubt his instincts, which were, he insisted, always right.

with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

Have FAITH in what you know is right, TRUST your instincts, listen to YOUR voice, and keep a POSITIVE attitude no matter what the situation and you'll succeed.

You don't have to follow a religion if you listen to the divine voice within you, pay close attention to instincts and intuitions.