#primal

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#emotions #fun #horror #horror movies #i

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. ↗

— Victor Salva

#fear #humans #i #i think #most

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#dance #just #like #primal #something

...impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #primal #love

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#fail #founders #lose #our #primal

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#character #clinton #distinguished #had #history

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#almost #basic #believe #desire #equally