Survival Quotes
-
A year ago, we were struggling for survival. At least now, we can dream a little bigger.
-
Survival is not enough.
-
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.
-
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
-
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission.
-
“Survival is a four letter word.”
-
I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
-
When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.
-
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
-
Capitalism is the key to survival.
-
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
-
Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.
-
And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
-
To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.
-
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
-
Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give...
-
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
-
I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.
-
The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.
-
The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
-
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
-
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
-
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
-
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
