#instinct

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#genuine #going #himself #instinct #liberty

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#finds #instincts #mankind #readiest #response

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#clothes #had #influence #instinct #magic

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. ↗

— Paul Begala

#answer #being #citizen #clinton #his

Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#arc #chemistry #eddie #emerged #how

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#bludgeoning #instinct #just #more #precision

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#although #deeper #even #forty #full

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 where I have not shared and probably will not share. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#between #cannot #country #fighting #gratify