Survival Quotes
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
James Forrestal
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.
Norbert Wiener
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Lena Headey
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Stanislav Grof
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
Robert Nozick
Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
David Millar
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Todd Solondz
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Mo Udall
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
Lewis Thomas
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
Elihu Root
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
Nick Nolte
As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
Steven Spielberg
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Luis Bunuel