Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Nozick

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

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.

Vic Morrow

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

Roland Barthes

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

Studs Terkel

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

Stephen Covey

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

Stephen Hawking

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

Stephen Hawking

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Stanley Milgram

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Walter Mosley

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

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...

Sylvia Plath

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.

Sonia Rykiel

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

Roger von Oech

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Russel Honore

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.