Instinct Quotes · Page 35

Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.

— Joy Mangano

I just always say your first instinct is your best instinct, I would say.

— Nelly Korda

“You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

— Jean Dubuffet

“Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.”

— E.L. James

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

— Peter Mullan

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

— Evelyn Waugh

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

— Jodi Picoult

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops…

— Maria Montessori

“Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly…

— Honoré de Balzac

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into…

— Anonymous

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Love is the king of the beasts And when it gets hungry it must kill to eat Love is the king of…

— Bill Callahan

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…

— Rachel Carson

“There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that…

— David Levithan

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

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

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

“Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther…

— Linda Olsson

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of…

— Philip Schaff

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

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…

— Charles Darwin

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

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”

— Robert Galbraith

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

— W. Somerset Maugham

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

— Theodore Hesburgh

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

— Lemn Sissay

Why do you have to live a fake life just to impress me???? Does your instincts tell you it will bring us…

— Adaeze Agbai

I've learned to always trust my mothers instinct, it's always the people she warns me about that end up hurting me.

— Anonymous

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

— Edmund Burke

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

— Steven Pressfield

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

— Gary Kemp

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

— Edith Piaf

“Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything”

— Lulu Guinness

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

— Simone Elkeles