Instinct Quotes · Page 18

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

— Sarah Kay

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

— Bill Blass

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion…

— Rush Limbaugh

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and…

— Albert Einstein

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

— Edith Head

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -…

— Robert A. Heinlein

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts…

— Georg Brandes

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take…

— Caeleb Dressel

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

— Andrew Flintoff

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

— Wendell Berry

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

— Gladys Taber

Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as…

— Dante Alighieri

Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle…

— Blanche Barton

It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with…

— Ralph Fiennes

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

— Farrah Fawcett

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the…

— Aleister Crowley

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect…

— Richard Ford

It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from…

— Anna Wintour

When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they…

— Peace Pilgrim

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

— Voltaire

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to…

— Dave Barry

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect…

— Tanith Lee