Survival Quotes - Page 20

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

It's a recipe for disaster.

If I don't have s*** in my pocket now, you'll have s*** in your pants later.

We need to look for water. Water, water, water, water.

You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Survival is a four letter word.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?