Basic Instincts Quotes

#1. Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

T.D. Jakes

#2. There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Scott McCloud

#4. Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#5. Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. The feeling of rank is one of the most basic human instincts. To gossip about someone is to elevate yourself above him or her.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome.
It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

Lauren Oliver

#8. It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.

Benjamin Percy

#9. Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Glen Hirshberg

#10. It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

Heather Matarazzo

#11. An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

Marcel Proust

#12. Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

Tammy Baldwin

#13. Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Ghosn

#15. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Eckhart Tolle

#16. I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic parental instincts for keeping the children out of harm's way. The drip, drip, drip of her poor judgment and neglect was pushing me over the edge.

James Whitfield Thomson