Instinct Quotes
People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.
Anthony Robbins
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.
Kat Richardson
Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.
George Herbert Palmer
The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!
Eugenia Sheppard
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
Erving Goffman
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.
Tom Hayden
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
Alexandre Dumas
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
William Francis Buckley
The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.
Julia Roberts
I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
Deborah Turbeville
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
He that but fears the thing he would not know,
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
That what he feared is chanced.
William Shakespeare
The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.
Michael Socha
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
Sigmund Freud
Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.
Harvey Keitel
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
