“When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“When we set boundaries, we express self-preservation and acknowledge mutual respect and autonomy. Boundaries can help us navigate balance, provide stable grounds… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“But a surprising number of elected officials have told us that they can see the danger themselves, but cannot say so for… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
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
“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his… — Molly Collier 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
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
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” — Joseph Brodsky 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
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can… — Barbara Corcoran 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
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“No matter how much of a giver you are, never give away your happiness.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
