I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch… — Ryan Gander 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
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sasha's green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. "In Naples," she said, "there were kids who were just lost.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you… — Alissa York Copy Share Image
“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable.… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's… — William Schaffner Copy Share Image
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes,… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
The Satanic Jews and their Allies fear being exposed and that is the role of the Messiah, to reveal the Man of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“So now you know that, as dark as the depths of the sea may be, as dark as the night gets without… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On the face of her phone Wileen programs a message to herself so that when the alarm clock rings the screen flashes:… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
“Survival is not a theory. In what way do I contribute to the subjugation of any part of those who I define… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all… — Adam C. Engst Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image