Survival Quotes
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.
Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.
Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.