“12. The Creative Force of Nature and Humanity. The innate tendency of self-preservation, which manifests itself as mechanical force or chemical affinity… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She's Devine. She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that… — C.R. Bittar Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul… — John R. Rickford Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for myself. Sounds so simple, yet… — Virginia Toole Copy Share Image
When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings… — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
“In times of turbulence in your life always know when it's time to throw up the gates and lock your heart and… — Charles E Hudson Copy Share Image
“But open secret is a lie we like to tell ourselves. It's a lie we often told ourselves, in sickness and in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation.… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
“Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else.… — Lacey Thorn Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Now I am a grown woman. No one knows me more than I want them to. It was self preservation. If everyone… — N. Torres Copy Share Image
When a totally offensive tax hits a few million people, Washington is prepared to look the other way. But when everyone is… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at… — Mons Kallentoft Copy Share Image
“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Self-preservation is a natural instinct while self-destruction goes against the grain of nature’s order. This spawns chaos, and chaos is freedom in… — Paul Allih Copy Share Image
“No life’s path is bloodless. Spill that of those blocking your path. Spill your own. Struggle on, wade the growing torrent with… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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