Survival Quotes - Page 7

• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  Rachel Caine

  Selfish, Dark, Needs

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Total Eclipse”, p.103, Allison & Busby

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• When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Life, Taken, Games

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ambition, Winning, Humanity

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.173, Macmillan

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• But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.

  Lou Banach

  Sports, Workout, Wall

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• The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Success, Keys, Rhythm Of Life

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• Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Cells, Recapitulation

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jonas Salk

  Men, Errors, Quality

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Government, Despair

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Strong, Children, Two

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• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Different, Integrating

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.132, MIT Press

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• 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.

  People, Politics, Said

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• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

  Ken Burns

  Past, Historical, Defining

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• Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, September 11, Weapons

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

  Robert Nozick

  Engagement, Able, Cooperation

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• A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Reality, Grace

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

  Andrew Young

  Change, Achievement, Black History

  Andrew Young (1994). “A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Strength, Struggle

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• This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Struggle, Race

  The Principles of Biology pt. 3, ch. 12 (1865) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 6

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• Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Brother, Men, Conditions

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• I feel like a tick on a dog.

  Cody Lundin

  Dog, Tick, Feels

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• It's like walking through someone's small intestine.

  Cody Lundin

  Intestines, Walking

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• Shirts don't grow on trees.

  Joe Teti

  Tree, Shirts, Grows

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  Change is the healthiest way to survive.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Change, Way, Fashion Designer

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.

  L. David Mech

  Hater, Nature, Attitude

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