Top 1200 Struggle For Survival Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

Adams first law of survival: Get even first.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

Developing survival skills in life is incredibly important and I was very lucky that I developed them at a very young age.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.

Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man's prosperity and survival, but so also is exchange.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.