A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right!… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Being part of an attack was a strange thing, Marcus had always thought. It was like being a component in a larger… — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“...play [is] an instinct developed by natural selection ... and ... on a level with the other instincts which are developed for… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's… — Peaches Geldof Copy Share Image
I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four… — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
It's probably instinct - know where the ball's going to drop and get there faster than the opposition. I was an Arsenal… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
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