Survival Quotes - Page 7

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

No not me go find someone else to bring down

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.