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
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
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you.” — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me. — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Life is too short to hold grudges true but cutting people off for self preservation isn't a grudge, its applying wisdom. — Anonymous 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
“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
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation. — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
