Quotes about Survival
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life
- George Bernard Shaw
Things out o' natur niver thrive: God A'mighty doesn't like 'em.
- George Eliot
Nay, Miss, I'n got to keep count o' the flour an' corn; I can't do wi' knowin' so many things besides my work. That's what brings folks to the gallows,—knowin' everything but what they'n got to get their bread by. An' they're mostly lies, I think, what's printed i' the books: them printed sheets are, anyhow, as the men cry i' the streets.
- George Eliot
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
- Ben Carson
Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
- Saint Jerome
If American business is going to prevail, and be competitive, we're going to have to get accustomed to the idea that business conditions change, and that survivors have to adapt to those changing conditions. Business is a competitive endeavor, and job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
- Sam Walton
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
- Junipero Serra
I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.
- Joel Osteen
Those who fled will fight another time.
- Tertullian
Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.
- Marianne Williamson
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
- Arthur C. Clarke