Survival Quotes - page 28

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival. (Jack White)
The modern State is by its very nature a military State; and every military State must of necessity become a conquering, invasive State; to survive it must conquer or be conquered, for the simple reason that accumulated military power will suffocate if it does not find an outlet. Therefore the modern State must strive to be a huge and powerful State: this is the indispensable precondition for its survival. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had. View quote
Max Brooks
Survival is the key word to remember-not victory, not conquest, just survival. View quote
Max Brooks
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump. View quote
Max Brooks
John was in exactly the right place at the right time to understand manufacturing at its deepest level - at a cellular level. His apprenticeship culminated in an insight that was critical to Fiat's survival. He noticed a persistent gap between what happens on the factory floor of, say, a headlight plant in Birmingham, and what information filters up to headquarters. View quote
John Elkann
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. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Creatures really have divergent and conflicting desires. Their distinct motives are not (usually) wishes for survival or for means-to-survival, but for various particular things to be done and obtained while surviving. And these can always conflict. Motivation is fundamentally plural. View quote
Mary Midgley
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from. View quote
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. View quote
Julian Barnes
I just want to be a channel of the peace. The peace exists; I don't need, thank God, to create the peace. All I have to do is become open and the peace will come, the peace is already there. Mother Teresa, one could argue, is a testimony to the principles outlined in this prayer; through service she conquered the lower, selfish drives that serve survival and the ego, and become a tool of a Higher Purpose, or God. (Russell Brand)
War does not call for judgment,” I said, "merely survival. View quote
Dan Simmons
The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit. View quote
Dan Simmons
In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met. View quote
B. H. Liddell Hart
We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simplest fundamental term-human survival. View quote
Walter Reuther
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. View quote
Johnny Carson
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. View quote
Desmond Morris
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. View quote
John R. Bolton
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. View quote
Billy Corgan
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.' (Lewis Thomas)
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. View quote
Lewis Thomas
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. View quote
John Banville
Danger plus survival equals fun. --From A Work in Progress. View quote
Neil Peart
#. A secondary injunction conflicting with the first at a more abstract level, and like the first enforced by punishments or signals which threaten survival... Verbalization of the secondary injunction may, there-fore, include a wide variety of forms; for example, "Do not see this as punishment"; "Do not see me as the punishing agent"; "Do not submit to my prohibitions"; and so on. View quote
Gregory Bateson