Survival Quotes - Page 19

About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

Shirts don't grow on trees.

History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

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

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.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

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.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.