I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The most power anyone will endure is the power to keep on fighting with all that's within you, no matter how hard… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“Try to relax," he suggested as another shiver rippled through me violently. "You'll be warm in a minute. Of course, you'd warm… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers,… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“But daylight brought with it a wonder. None of us had expected to see it again. And as the darkness lost its… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
“Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the latent power of nature. Often when she is most beautiful she is also most dangerous to those who fail… — Rich Hungerford Copy Share Image
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or… — Suzanne Goldsmith Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Are the new crops standing tall pushing up towards God? Or are their roots going far into what's left of the old… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But… — David Andrew Sinclair Copy Share Image
Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more… — Mors Kochanski Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life – war being but a concentrated form of the human… — Frans P.B. Osinga Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
