Best survival & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.”

“A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.”

World Light Government Order Nations Common Proud Survival Historical Someday Yield Sovereignty World Order Common Good World Government

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.”

People Light Choices Ability Numbers Democracy Information Depends Survival Realistic Adequate Large Numbers

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.”

Art Light Faces Games Walks Wall Survival Your Face Elbows Glare Smile On Your Face

Author:Jean Chretien

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.”

Ifs Light Wise Alive Love You Survival And Love Sticks Fingers Staying Staying Alive Plugs

Author:Robert Altman

“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”

Wells Doe Soul Wisdom Light Night Nations Stars Return Survival Endless Dawn Resurrection Entitled Deep Thought Eclipse Synonym

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.”

Humans Stills Matter Light White Depends Survival Gold Plant Tone Cream Intervention Survival Of The Fittest Chartreuse

Author:Allen Lacy

“I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.”

“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”

Way Writing Long Stills Light Hair Survival Tasks Unity Fingers Metaphor Heavy Slips Thick Diverse Soup Attempting Simile Handful Fables Strands Coarse Unruly Diction Braids

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.”

Trying Firsts Light Fire Cold Survival Warm Weather Sensible Cold Weather

Author:Mors Kochanski

“The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.”

Light Survival Decided Maps Exploring Indiana

Author:Joe Teti

“C'mon baby light for me!”

Light Baby Survival

Author:Cody Lundin

“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Men Reason Light Values Sound Animal Levels Figures Movement Survival Species Including Separation Caregiving

Book:A Secure Base

Source: A Secure Base

“The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.”

“Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.”

Thinking Ends Light Survival Cancer Coming Out Tunnels Diagnosis Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel Cancer Survival

Author:Dana Reeve

“The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.”

Source: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

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