Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Basically, we are all chimps. The human side is at the front of our forehead, but the chimp is the part that lashes out. When I play, I am completely chimp-orientated.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.