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 naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Imitation is a real instinct, but it is not always playful; play is a real instinct, but it is not always imitative.… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Choose to listen to your inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. Do what you know in your heart is… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
To have a friend does not end when you argue. Actually, friendship started when that thing happened. Not because you call each… — Myself Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Humanity is mostly operating on the level of instinct, even though it has the power of the rational mind. It is a… — X5 Copy Share Image
What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Fear,” said Lobsang. “An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like… — David Michie Copy Share Image
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no… — Bobby Slayton Copy Share Image
I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
