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..love cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities." -- Ray Bradbury
Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard. -- Bill Goldberg
Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts. -- George Jean Nathan
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. -- Federico Fellini
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. -- Jodi Picoult
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. -- Mark Twain
What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world? -- Humphry Davy
Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that. -- Michel Foucault
There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think. -- Patrick Wilson
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. -- George Santayana
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested. -- Matthew Weiner
For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it. -- Reggie Lewis
Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible. -- Nicole Trunfio
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. -- Ben Hogan
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. -- Joshua Ferris
I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down. -- Rachael Harris
We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. -- Bryan Cranston
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face. -- Fannie Flagg
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. -- Kid Cudi
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. -- Charles Comiskey
I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct. -- Robin Wright
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. -- Russell Baker
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school. -- Katie Leung
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
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not. -- Felicia Day
People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover. -- Kid Cudi
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees. -- Neal Bascomb
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. -- Margaret Fuller
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. -- Allan Bloom
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. -- Lauren Oliver

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