Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. - (1772-1834)
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to yo...
Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour o...
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
