Instinct Quotes

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

Everything is instincts when returning kicks.

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Making movies is all about instinct.

John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

Hillary Clinton has no instinct.

Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

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

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird

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.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?