Home / Topics / Survival Quotes

Survival Quotes

Browse 3207 quotes about Survival.

Survival Quotes

“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

“Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.”

War Eye Community Views Struggle Doors Survival Compassionate Absent Sanctions

Author:Elizabeth Cox

“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.”

Character Together Dies Views Goes On Survival Conservative Rage Scream Conservatism Back Together

Author:Jane Smiley

“Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.”

World Philosophy Motivation Given Views Vision Lord Teaching Survival India Critical New World Hinduism Advent World View Reformers Beneficiaries Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Self Values I Believe Views Students Survival Inevitable Characteristics Biology Pessimism Fulfilling Conservation

Author:Denis Hayes

“Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'”

People Wells Looks Different Whole Today Views Century Survival Red Teeth Biology Arrangements Hostile 19th Century Claws Survival Of The Fittest Amiable

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.”

Play Views Discipline Survival Negative Dna Hunts

Book:Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.”

“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.”

Past Lying Social Sex Religious Views Moral Groups Economic Particular Circumstances Judgment Survival Function Judgement Customs Discarded Moral Judgment Bodily Functions Moral Judgement

Author:Peter Singer

“I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival”

Said War Desire Views Enemy Modern Policy Development Survival Point Of View Extermination Modern War

Book:Notes towards the Definition of Culture

Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture