Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny,… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,… — Katy Mixon Copy Share Image
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to… — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly… — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“You should accept the fact that there's no clear boundary between you and the horse, between rationality and instinct. It's not easy… — Sibyl von der Schulenburg Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When they first asked me to do 'Hulk,' my first instinct was to say no because I didn't think I had anything… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. — Valentine de Saint-Point Copy Share Image
I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel… — Cheryl Cole Copy Share Image
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I… — Cheryl Tiegs Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A mothers instinct is something no child, husband, or any other none mother will ever understand, no matter how hard you try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Believe in what your mind thinks and what your heart whispers, because it's not something that can be modified or controlled by… — Modestas Rinkevicius Copy Share Image
People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
