Instinct Quotes · Page 9

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

— Joan Fontaine

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

[Donald] Trump is winning because people that vote Republican have been let down and disappointed one too many times, and their instinct…

— Rush Limbaugh

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging…

— Horace Mann

Alia doesn't need my guidance regarding the kind of films she should do. Rather, she is quite a sorted individual who follows…

— Soni Razdan

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try…

— Nancy Lopez

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but…

— Terry Pratchett

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

I've always had the instinct and I always have the mind to make the right play.

— Fred VanVleet

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until…

— Carice van Houten

Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get…

— Emma Watson

Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by…

— Peter Bradshaw

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth.…

— Melina Marchetta

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the…

— Peter Matthiessen

When you're working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait…

— Alex Kurtzman

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the…

— Jean Piaget

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what…

— T. D. Jakes

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and…

— Max Beerbohm

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no…

— John Dryden

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in…

— Robert Smith