Survival Quotes - Page 15

• The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Leviathan

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Real, Moving, People

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• Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.

  Michio Kaku

  Space, Odds, Faces

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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• I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

  Robert Kennedy

  Family, Children, Struggle

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). “Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

  Billie Jean King

  Home, Men, Tennis

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• But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

  Audre Lorde

  Teaching, Keys, Different

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Giving, Justice

  "Queen of the islands". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

  Demetri Martin

  Romantic, Fun, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

  Rollo May

  Life, Good Life, Care

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Flavor, Certain, Protected

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• I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

  Helen Mirren

  Males, Female, Actors

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• With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ideas, Important, How You Feel

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• Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Courage, Steel, Danger

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• You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Character, Defeat

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• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  Ted Nugent

  Crush, War, Evil

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

  Grace Paley

  Good Life, Peculiar, Interest In Life

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.63, Macmillan

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• There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Competition, Adjectives

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• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  Iggy Pop

  Memories, Hot, Favors

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Europe, Needs

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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