Best 1668 quotes in «survival quotes» category

Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Learn to live on the edge.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

Let's go Matt; we aren't strolling through Central Park here.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Looking good Matt, you look like a money.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

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.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.