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Surviving Quotes (page 30)

Daniel Goleman quote: "Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more..."
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. Daniel Goleman
We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers. John Steinbeck
I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to. (Danny North/Silverman/Stone) Orson Scott Card
Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: And whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.’ [Matthew 16:25.]…He who is ‘The Way, the Truth and the Life’ [see John 14:6] has herein set forth an immutable law. …Specifically stated, this law is, ‘We live our lives most completely when we strive to make the world better and happier.’ The law of pure nature, survival of the fittest, is self-preservation at the sacrifice of all else; but in contrast to this the law of true spiritual... David O. McKay
Nora Roberts quote: "We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived..."
We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us. Nora Roberts
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. Orson Scott Card
Wally Lamb quote: "That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it,..."
That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience. Wally Lamb
Clarence Darrow quote: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the..."
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Clarence Darrow
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Someone has to spread the good news that we survived."
Someone has to spread the good news that we survived. Stephenie Meyer
For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world's affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence. Thomas Pynchon
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. Umberto Eco
John Adams quote: "Thomas Jefferson still survives"
Thomas Jefferson still survives John Adams
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them. Dorothy Allison
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch? Douglas Adams
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured. From evils that never arrived. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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