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Instinct Quotes - Page 16

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.162, Hachette UK

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

"My Brilliant Career: Kristen Wiig" by Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

"We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

My instincts are not comedic.

Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2146, Delphi Classics

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

"Gaffigan's 'Welcome': Series drops a friendly Indiana weatherman in the Big Apple". "Houston Chronicle" Newspaper, November 21, 2000.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin Group

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.873, Kensington Publishing Corp.

We heed no instincts but our own.

Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.58