Instinct Quotes - Page 12

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

I was a coward on instinct.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

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 natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.