#instinct

Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long? ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#funny #guys #kissing-back-is-instinct #funny

It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#cave-men #caveman #grunting #instincts #mating

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #instinctive #try #want #writer

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #instinct #question #should #think

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#i #instinct #man #rather #reason

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#charitable #child #different #different types #global

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

#adequate #characterization #desire #dialogue #dramatic

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ↗

— Josh Billings

#common sense #enough #genius #instinct #sense

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#among #herd #independent #instinct #like