Survival Quotes - page 7

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. (George Ball)
I've always believed in survival. View quote
Hugh Leonard
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased. View quote
Ike Skelton
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. View quote
Joan Halifax
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. View quote
Jamais Cascio
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there. View quote
James de la Vega
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. View quote
Ken Burns
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. View quote
Kenichi Fukui
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species. View quote
Louise Leakey
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. View quote
Larry Harvey
Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival. (Marilu Henner)
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader. View quote
Mary McDonnell
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. View quote
Monica Raymund
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game. View quote
Sadaharu Oh
My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. View quote
Sonia Rykiel
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. View quote
Steve Lacy
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. View quote
Samuel Fuller
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? View quote
Theodore Bikel
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics. View quote
Vic Morrow
Man's excellence lies in his readiness to let others live and lay down his own life. As he progresses, his food also changes for the better. He has the capacity to grow still further. There have been many more discoveries after Darwin's. The book which you have been reading seems to be an old one. Whether it is old or new, the "Principle of the greatest good of the greatest number," or "survival of the fittest" is false. (Mahatma Gandhi)
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival... It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
That's the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there's not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize... that it is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival. View quote
Buckminster Fuller