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
“...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
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy;… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — Anonymous 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
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity… — Noah Feldman 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
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune 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
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
“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
“I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
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