(863 quotes found)
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one.”
Darien Fawkes
“The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."”
Herbert Spencer
“Survival is triumph enough.”
Harry Crews
“If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life”
Susanna Miller
“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”
Charles Darwin
“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference”
Rachel Carson
“Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.”
Larry Kersten
