“Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us.” — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard 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
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Follow your heart, Not the world. It'll get you much further in life, trust me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff. — Sam Trammell 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
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
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — Anonymous 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
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
