Instinctive Quotes

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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.

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

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.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.