None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium;… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...play, so far from being "by play," if I may so speak, is a matter of serious moment to the creature. Play… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We are literally like sisters: you know their ins and outs; you know if something is on their mind, that something's bugging… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that… — Amy Pietz Copy Share Image
“On any given day you have the chance to be a hero or a victim, predator or prey. Most times, circumstances are… — Joshua C. Cohen Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I think trusting your instincts and doing what is right by you is the most important thing, because at the end of… — Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza Copy Share Image
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump's] instincts are way more favorable to the LGBTQ community than any other Republican that was on the stage. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well… — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the… — Jane Harrison Copy Share Image
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
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