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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct. — Honore De Balzac

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined. — Shannon L. Alder

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that. — John Otto

You breathed life back into me. It was instinct for me to be there with you. I didn't want to save you, I just didn't know how to leave you. — Tarryn Fisher

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Your soul is strong to survive the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The survived suffered-soul strengthens the suffering souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us. — Mark Schatzker

I don't need a book to tell me how to be alive. — Marty Rubin

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. — Federico Fellini

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food. — Alain Ducasse

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot. — Robert Macfarlane

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. — Jodi Picoult

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me. — Alexandra Bracken

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. — Denis Leary

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart. — Nikki Rowe

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. — J.I. Packer

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. — John Muir

Hope is strength of soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What most people call instinct in people is really the interpretation of small subconscious cues. — Claudia Gray

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. — Don Marquis

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

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct. — Steve Pavlina

Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions. — Gayle D. Erwin

I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know. — Jerrod Carmichael

As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions. — Gina Greenlee

If you listen to music daily, you find strength of survival. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness. — Charlotte Bronte

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts. — Tim Meadows

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. — Peter Mullan

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. — Devon Monk

I'm adding 'canine' to my searches," I said. "And 'instinct.'" "Whatever. I'm adding 'lunatic. — Kathy Reichs

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. — Alex Majoli

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein

Experience is a question of instinct about life. — Oscar Wilde

Good sex isn't complete without cuddling and aftercare.

Women instinctively know this. Men, if they're smart, figure it out. — Nikki Sex

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press. — Veronica Roth

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. — Alexander Pope

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. — Lofty Wiseman

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment. — Lloyd Paul Stryker

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett

The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus

Illusion is seed of instinct. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. — Jonathan Schell

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts. — Jeff Foxworthy

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. — Richard Branson

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. — Prince Philip

At some point in my life, it became hard to tell what my gut instinct told me and what my programmed mind had interfered with. — A.M. Martinez

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. — Alexander Pope

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. — Marty Rubin

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. — Ravi Shankar

If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I follow my instincts and my excitement. — Rory MacDonald

Survival requires guts and instinct. — Toba Beta

Instinctively we naturally want to guard or protect something we view as precious. — Sunday Adelaja

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper

Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle. — Bishop T. D. Jakes

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival. — Elie Tahari

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

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can. — Timothy Ferriss

The voice within is the voice of a sacred soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time. — Nikki Rowe

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers. — Jennifer Estep

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons. — Miguel Torres

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully. — Jennie Allen

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive. — Ronda Rousey

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. — William James

Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME! — Julie McGalliard

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. — Donatella Versace

Love is the instinct for creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only — William Graham Sumner

But a nation which has people who can think, the nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, not instinct or habit. — F. Sionil Jose

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

I write out of instinct. — Jerome Weidman

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. — Albert Camus

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire? — Guy De Maupassant

Instinct chooses her own children. — Gregory David Roberts

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. — Peter Landesman