Instinctive Quotes

185 quotes by 163 authors

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. — Laura Linney
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and… — Jon Meacham
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. — Mario Monti
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. — George Orwell
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. — Clive Owen
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. — Willie Stargell
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing. — Rachel Weisz
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape. — Mel Odom
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any… — Albert Einstein
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care… — Joan Didion
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied… — Richard Wright
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… — Guy de Maupassant
Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up… — Mira Grant
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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