Quotes of Survival - somelinesforyou

“ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ”

- Aristotle

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ The survival of the fittest. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ”

- Jane Wagner

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

- Wendell Berry

“ Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ 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. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Survival is triumph enough. ”

- Harry Crews

“ The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ”

- Morris K. Udall

“ 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

“ I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. ”

- Iggy Pop

“ Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ”

- Sun tzu

“ No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ”

- Colin Powell

“ We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ”

- Richard Branson

“ Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. ”

- Dora Russell

“ Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing. ”

- joss whedon

“ After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Be happy — if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ This is survival of the fittestThis is do or dieThis is the winner takes it allSo take it all. ”

- Eminem

“ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ Anytime people are in very extreme circumstances, dealing with life and death and dealing with survival I think we can find truth in those moments. ”

- Matthew

“ This is a fight for livelihood, for survival. He knows it, and Mayweather better know it, too. ”

- Don King

“ Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope. ”

- George Iles

“ Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead . ”

- John H. Johnson

“ The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles — whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled — is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating… ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ I find it extraordinary that a straightforward, if inelegant, device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously? ”

- P. D. James

“ Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die… ”

- Ernest Hemingway
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7