My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul… — Bree Despain 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
“if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at… — Mons Kallentoft Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf 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
“Denise's first thought on seeing her blood stain Spade's lips was "oh shit". Then the fire that leapt into his gaze and… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
“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 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
“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
“…I saw that she, that we, had been wrong my entire life. Self-preservation is not the primary instinct. It never was. […]… — Stephen Tobolowsky 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
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding 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
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No life’s path is bloodless. Spill that of those blocking your path. Spill your own. Struggle on, wade the growing torrent with… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Self-preservation is a natural instinct while self-destruction goes against the grain of nature’s order. This spawns chaos, and chaos is freedom in… — Paul Allih 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
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss 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
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
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
“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
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
When a totally offensive tax hits a few million people, Washington is prepared to look the other way. But when everyone is… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Now I am a grown woman. No one knows me more than I want them to. It was self preservation. If everyone… — N. Torres Copy Share Image
“She's Devine. She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that… — C.R. Bittar Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“12. The Creative Force of Nature and Humanity. The innate tendency of self-preservation, which manifests itself as mechanical force or chemical affinity… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
![“…I saw that she, that we, had been wrong my entire life. Self-preservation is not the primary instinct. It never was. […] People don’t seek survival. Even if they do, it’s more like an afterthought, like trying to remember to turn into the skid, which is important, but it’s not the primary…” quote by Stephen Tobolowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/stephen-tobolowsky-17312_entire-life_i-saw-that-she-that-we-had-been-wrong-my_2816830.jpg)
![“When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/elizabeth-gilbert-131_articles_when-i-read-the-article-in-the-new-yorke_1458661.jpg)
![“If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/elizabeth-gilbert-131_children_if-todd-willingham-was-guilty-of-anythin_1702949.jpg)
