Quotes by Survival Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat. Alva Myrdal strive nuclear survival The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success. Alvin Toffler survival yesterday firsts People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring. Amanda Ripley survival spring people Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme. Amanda Ripley survival impossible lost War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. Aminatta Forna survival war people The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are. Amy Poehler machines survival world The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. Andrea Dworkin survival tragedy suicide There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival. Andrew B. Newberg survival unhappy brain Capitalism is the key to survival. Andrew Joseph Galambos capitalism survival keys Survival feels like cowardice. Ann Aguirre cowardice survival feels They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. Ann Brashares survival self together Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand. Ann Petry resilience survival way Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. Ann Zwinger survival flower acceptance Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic? Anna Lee survival together bird Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now. Annalee Newitz survivor survival animal think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the Earth has the power to shape us much more powerfully. To survive climate change, we'll have to realize how dependent we are on our ecosystems for our own survival. Annalee Newitz ecosystems survival thinking She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well. Anne Cameron live-well wells survival I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world. Anne Tyler endurance survival promise Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. Annie Dillard emergencies survivor survival Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists. Anthony Standen survival nature science «1234567891011»