The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
~By George Lucas ~
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~By Russel Honore ~
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
~By Aristotle ~
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
~By Elias Canetti ~
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
~By Rollo May ~
We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.
~By Steve Blake ~
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
~By Ty Cobb ~
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.
~By Marilu Henner ~
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
~By Elihu Root ~
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
~By Tony Blair ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
~By William Glasser ~
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
~By Germaine Greer ~
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
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.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
~By Mo Udall ~
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
~By Edward Everett Hale ~
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
~By Jane Wagner ~
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
~By Solomon Short ~
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
~By Andrew Young ~
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
~By James De La Vega ~
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Moderation is the secret of survival.
~By Manly Hall ~
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
~By Iggy Pop ~
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
~By George Ball ~
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
~By Albert Claude ~
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
~By James Forrestal ~
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.
~By Larry Harvey ~
I've always believed in survival.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~By Steve Lacy ~
If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
~By Josiah Strong ~
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Survival is triumph enough.
~By Harry Crews ~
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
~By Wendell Berry ~
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
~By Nick Nolte ~
The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
~By Al Purdy ~
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
~By Ken Burns ~
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.
~By Bill Scott ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
~By Doug Larson ~
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
~By John McCarthy ~
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
~By Jack Herer ~
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
~By Anita Roddick ~
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
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.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
~By Corrine Brown ~
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.
~By Vic Morrow ~
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
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.
~By Audre Lorde ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
~By David Hackworth ~
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
~By Bill Cosby ~
White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!
~By George Lincoln Rockwell ~
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
~By Alan Shepard ~
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
~By Todd Solondz ~
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