Quotes with instinct

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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Trollope I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
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  • Armistead Maupin I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author of himself and knew no other kin.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Virginia Woolf If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anatole France In art as in love, instinct is enough.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Madame de Girardin Instinct is the nose of the mind.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Mae West Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Francis H. Bradley Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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