“First time was instinct. I hear O’Leary go, “Jesus,” and there’s a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he’d… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I attended law school, the progression into a career in corporate law was almost foreordained. I set about to craft a career… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Could it be that what we called aberrant behavior was in fact the natural state of man? Was there an instinct to… — Wrath James White Copy Share Image
When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat… — Chalene Johnson Copy Share Image
“You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“ 'I can get mad all I want, but they don't mean it. They love me. Sometimes, some creatures, when they get… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The move for the pitcher of Bloody Marys on the porch railing is pure instinct, reflex. Tomatoes are packed with vitamins. Next,… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've learned about employee relations; I've learned about following your instinct. One of the biggest mistakes you can follow is not following… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
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![“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/sam-keen-4929_airborne_we-all-yearn-to-fly-we-are-creatures-of_890048.jpg)
