Instinct Quotes

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Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do… — P. C. Cast
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
You cannot love without intuition. — Graham Greene
I have really good instincts about friends. — Nicole Richie
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… — Adrienne Rich
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to… — Eric Ludy
Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter.… — William Shakespeare
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen
It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules. — Simone Elkeles
emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even… — R A Salvatore
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've… — Nancy Werlin
Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a… — Sloane Crosley
â€Ž"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he… — Nicholas Sparks
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible,… — Lauren Oliver
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut… — Virginia Woolf
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as… — Jack London
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your… — Judith McNaught

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