Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Frank Herbert

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Jim Butcher

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Iris Murdoch

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Guillermo del Toro

Survival often feels like an indignity.

Hugh Leonard

I've always believed in survival.

Horace Mann

Deeds survive the doers.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Kevin Bacon

Obviousl, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Joanne Harris

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

Helen Mirren

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Hayley Atwell

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.

Khalil Gibran

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Ted Turner

I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.

Theodore Sturgeon

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Malin Akerman

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

Joel McHale

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

Garry Shandling

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Joan Crawford

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Joan Baez

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

John F. Kennedy

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. ...

Linda Vester

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Josephine Hart

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

John le Carre

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

George Lucas

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

M. F. K. Fisher

... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...

Lord Kelvin

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

Judy Collins

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

Jeremy Rifkin

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Leonardo DiCaprio

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Learned Hand

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.