Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Rebecca West

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

William James

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Richard Louv

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Richard M. Nixon

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not...

Richard Dawkins

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

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

Robert Nozick

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Salman Rushdie

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Vinton Cerf

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Winston Churchill

Without victory there is no survival!

Yvon Chouinard

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

William Ralph Inge

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

Rebecca Solnit

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Rebecca Solnit

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Rick Yancey

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

Kevin Bacon

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

Malin Akerman

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

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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

It used to be survival of the fittest,

Nelson Mandela

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

Noam Chomsky

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

Pat Summitt

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

Martin Filler

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Nadine Gordimer

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Laurence Gonzales

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

Margaret Atwood

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Thomas A. Edison

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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.