Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl 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
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
“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
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I… — Rachel Caine 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
“Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes… — Jacques Sandulescu Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis 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
“...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
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
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
“I know one thing about the place I came from,' I say. 'We didn't eat dessert.' 'Then you came from a horrible… — Josin L. McQuein Copy Share Image
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen 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
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
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself… — Charles Dickens 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
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then… — Lord Chesterfield 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
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
“John and I have made this stuff our hobby, in the way that an especially attractive prisoner makes a hobby out of… — David Wong 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
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“No matter how much of a giver you are, never give away your happiness.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“For humans, not fearing death is 99% a blessing, and only 1% a curse.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
