Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

I have a motherly instinct and I'm always trying to give therapy.

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

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

I have never been able to go against my instinct.

An animal’s memory is not in words, they’ve got to be in pictures – it’s very detailed so let’s say the animal gets afraid of something. Like, for example you beat the dog up and they're looking at you and your Nike shoes or any sneaker or anything like a Nike, he's likely to be afraid of that - so anything without that Nike wingtip, he's likely to be fine. If you think about it, that's a different picture, than a Nike type shoe. Its specific because its sensory based.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

My instinct and gut guide me very strongly.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.