Instinctive Quotes

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Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the… — Ronald Reagan
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the… — Claude Bernard
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,… — Albert Camus
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow… — Diane Watson
If you have an intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you… — Rhonda Byrne
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories — Alber Elbaz
I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when… — Tom Hanks
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when… — Carl Jung
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its… — Gregory of Nazianzus
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task.… — Cy Twombly
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by… — Havelock Ellis
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may… — Russell M. Nelson
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. — Kim Novak
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,… — L. Frank Baum
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay… — Elwyn Brooks White

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