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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

My instincts are not comedic.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. And to me, I still could create bigger works. The opportunity doesn't come along to do anything any bigger. So I've worked as big as I've had the opportunity to work, basically.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

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

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

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

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

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

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

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.