Instinct Quotes

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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his… — Jean Cocteau
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger;… — Zane Grey
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a… — Jodi Picoult
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later — Unknown Author
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves,… — Jack London
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… — Jack London
Men always want to be a womanâ€™s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What… — Oscar Wilde
I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have… — Janet Evanovich
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and… — H.G. Wells
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and… — Melina Marchetta
Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just… — George Orwell
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. — Agatha Christie
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. — Bertrand Russell
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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