Best survival & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.”

Age Artist Survival Suspects Acceptable Starving Starving Artist

“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.”

Source: Silent Spring

“In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.”

Age Asks Answers Quality Depends Survival Series Survivor Correctness

Author:Margaret Mead

“Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.”

World Age Today Turns Too Much Demand Survival Constant Smell Senses Primitive Urban Turn Off Alertness Urban Life

Author:Carole Katchen

“In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”

Men Age Form Time Names Known Survival Doctors Aging Torture Native American Hypocrite Exquisite

Author:Edward Everett Hale

“I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.”

Facts Age Our Lives Grew Grew Up Survival Horse Bells Harness Antiques Saddles Sleighs

Author:Paul Engle

“the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.”

Men Long War Age Order Fall Social Enemy Survival Men And Women Fortune Camps Tolerate Exceptional Hostage Social Order Rise And Fall Picturesque

Author:Emily James Smith Putnam

“When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.”

Kids Age Certain Fighting Worry Goes On Survival Instinct Trials Kicks Toes Tribulation Survival Instinct Trials And Tribulations Carefree No Worries

Author:Jay Rock

“Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important stat for me, because I fall in this category. I am one of these statistics. Unlike every other age group, there has been no improvement in the 5-year survival of young adults in 30 years. That means many young adults have the same chance of getting cancer and dying from it as they did in the 1970's. This is not OK.”

Years Mean Has Beens Important Age Young Fall Chance Groups Dying Survival Adults Young Adult Cancer Improvement Statistics Categories

Author:Jenna Morasca

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

Age Peace Conditions Survival Nuclear Peacemaking Nuclear Missiles

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.”

Knows Years Mean Body Age Pain Life Is Watches Growing Failing Sacrifice Dying Survival Instinct Toil Survival Instinct

Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.”

“Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.”

Men Humans Age Science Proud Survival Bird Species Nuclear Foolish Insects Habitat Hardy Bacteria Cockroaches

Author:H. Bentley Glass

“African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.”

Wells Age Dies White Disease Survival Rate Cancer African American Breasts Breast Cancer American Woman African American Women Prostate Ovarian Cancer

Author:Frank C. Garland

“In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health.”

Humans Made Enough Age Chance Space Race Opinion Civilization Survival Profit Permanent Human Race Good Health Settlement Amenities

Author:Poul Anderson

“If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.”

Ifs Men World Age Faith Hate Fear Survival And Love Weight Crush Live By Conspiracy Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love

Author:O. P. Kretzmann

“Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.”

“We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”

Humans Wells Age Compassion Known Survival Resilience Luxury Well Being

Author:Joan Halifax

“A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.”

Age Environment One Thing Survival Defeat Adaptation Dinosaurs Cockroaches

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.”

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.”

Thinking World Love Age Humanity Games Loses Powerful Watches Sacrifice Messages Survival Hunger Entertainment Misfortunes Warning Really Powerful

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission.”

“This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling.”

People Soul Self Enough Feelings Home Age Hours Survival Ordinary Conviction Protection Shakes Exposed Radiant

Author:Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.”

Men Age Past Law Results Alive Survival Pity Interfere Desirable Strain Ruthless Governing Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.”

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