Survival Quotes
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.
So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.