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
“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb 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
“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the… — Stewart Stafford 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
“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the… — Antonio R. Damasio 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
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
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.” He turned… — Paolo Bacigalupi 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
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take… — Diogenes 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
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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