Best 1668 quotes in «survival quotes» category

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

This is like being in the super bowl. It's first down, you're on the one yard line, You either make a touchdown or you're hosed.

This is looking tasty.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

This place has a one, two knockout punch.

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

Usually guys with your skill set like to eat bugs; I don't get that dude.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

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.

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

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 are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoidable, calories were scarce and hard to get. In the modern era, calories are unavoidable, physical activity is scare and hard to get. The traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, and let's face it, the survival of our ancestors is the reason that we're here because the people who don't survive and make very crummy ancestors, are our traits. But they're very much at odds with the modern environment.

We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.