Quotes of: Instinctive Keyword

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague would rest upon the support of a na...

American Odyssey: Letters & Journals, 1940-1947

At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and by which it is secured. Such security, like paradise, is closed to man forever; man has to make choices. In addition to this,...

Man's Search for Meaning

Ally turned her attention back to Brian Byrne. "So what do you do for a living when you're not searching out your roots?" "Have sex with thousands of women." He slanted her a grin that would've knocked her off her feet if she wasn't already laid out ...

Night Games

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

Drowning Instinct

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The French Dresser.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The Golden Notebook

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Bossypants

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

Jim Evans

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Delia Smith

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

Adam Bede

Not all of your foes will appear in their true form. You must learn to trust your instincts.

Amber Smoke

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

A History of Western Philosophy

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Jayber Crow

Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.

The Kills

Gut instinct," Jeremy wheezed. "Your gut's been shot," Mike pointed out, but he looked uncertain.

The Morning Star

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Some instincts are best left uncivilized

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The Time Machine

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.

The Witch of Little Italy

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde