Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
“Instinct caused a woman who had once been so attractive to still attempt makeup and hairdos, Marisa guessed, but more often than… — Anna Jeffrey Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that,… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
“…I saw that she, that we, had been wrong my entire life. Self-preservation is not the primary instinct. It never was. […]… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom… — Libby Copeland Copy Share Image
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
“No, because of instinct. You can tell who to trust. People can, just like animals. We don’t listen as well as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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