Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

Charles Darwin

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Cameron Sinclair

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Alain de Botton

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Deepak Chopra

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.

Edward Abbey

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

Walter Benjamin

I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have ourselves to save.

Cyril Connolly

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

Annie Dillard

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Conrad Black

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

E. O. Wilson

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

E. O. Wilson

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters...

Dorothy Allison

... survival is the least of my desires.

David Attenborough

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

David Byrne

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

Desmond Morris

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Ann Aguirre

Survival feels like cowardice.

Christopher McDougall

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

Anne Tyler

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

Alva Myrdal

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Amy Poehler

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

Allen Klein

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Brigham Young

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Edmund Spenser

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Elie Wiesel

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.