Instinct Quotes

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What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Experience is a question of instinct about life. — Oscar Wilde
Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing… — Tite Kubo
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually donâ€™t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide… — Slash
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a… — Barbara Kingsolver
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart… — Janette Rallison
Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage — Gloria Steinem
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
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that… — John D. MacDonald
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow… — Carl Jung
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us… — Margaret Fuller
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. — Georgette Heyer
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we… — W G Sebald
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is… — Isaac Asimov
I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. — John Muir

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