Instinct Quotes

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Iâ€™m adding â€˜canineâ€™ to my searches,â€ I said. â€œAnd â€˜instinct.â€™â€ â€œWhatever. Iâ€™m adding â€˜lunatic. — Kathy Reichs
Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the… — Andre Agassi
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from. — Nicholas Sparks
Women have been driven mad, â€œgaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of proprietyâ€“â€“Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black,… — Aberjhani
You should always trust the instincts of children. — Ally Carter
...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a… — Brad Meltzer
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers. — Jennifer Estep
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as… — Henry David Thoreau
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. — Barbara Mertz
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself… — Margaret Atwood
He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the… — Melina Marchetta
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit… — Jack Zipes
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational… — Douglas Adams
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain… — Oscar Wilde
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my… — Richard Branson
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people. — Terry Pratchett
Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your… — Miranda Kerr
The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was… — Mohammed Hanif
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,… — Anais Nin

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