#instincts

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#different #different things #each #expense #gratified

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#ahead #andy #andy warhol #believe #culture

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#attacks #embody #fort #hood #human

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#following #forgive #forgive me #give me #god

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#going #instincts #sometimes #useful #very

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#instincts #will #win

My instincts are not comedic. ↗