Natural Instincts Quotes

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Against human nature one cannot legislate.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.

Self preservation is the first law of nature and governments.

I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

I've never gone wrong trusting my gut.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.