Survival Quotes

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.

Love is the only engine of survival

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.

You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.