You can only let someone throw so many stones at you before you pick them all up, put them together and build… — Chellise Work Copy Share Image
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It's really easy to give up all of those things important for self-preservation. You need to keep your sleep, exercise and retain… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
“What begins as a minor internal wobble becomes a cascade of relational failures. The chain is not broken until the individual stops… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their… — Donato Carrisi Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“A lot can be determined by the choices we make, even if the action is initiated by self-preservation. Many ... no, most… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may… — Abdullah Yusuf Ali Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“I know one thing about the place I came from,' I say. 'We didn't eat dessert.' 'Then you came from a horrible… — Josin L. McQuein Copy Share Image
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
“Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
