You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
“The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed… — Ian Douglas-Hamilton Copy Share Image
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms. — David Dreman Copy Share Image
“Hey Kate, you coming to our show Friday night?" He leaned in close and touched my shoulder. "The guys would love to… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage… — Mary E. Reed Copy Share Image
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when… — Shelley Moore Capito Copy Share Image
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright 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
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
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image