“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
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
“I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable.” — Julian Barnes 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
Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“What begins as a minor internal wobble becomes a cascade of relational failures. The chain is not broken until the individual stops… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the… — Winston Churchill 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
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
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
“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their… — Donato Carrisi Copy Share Image
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur 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
In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings… — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker 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
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke 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
“But open secret is a lie we like to tell ourselves. It's a lie we often told ourselves, in sickness and in… — David Levithan 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
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
“Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.” — Jayne Lockwood Copy Share Image
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in… — Jon Gordon 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
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
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom. — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than… — Jodi Picoult 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
“Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
You can only let someone throw so many stones at you before you pick them all up, put them together and build… — Chellise Work 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
“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell 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
“Self-preservation is a biological imperative even in the lowest of life forms, but annoyance is a trait exclusive to the most deviant.” — Whiskey Britches Copy Share Image
