A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. - Timothy Garton Ash
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. - Hans Selye
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? - Theodore Bikel
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. - Theodore C. Sorensen
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. - Ambrose Bierce
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. - Tony Blair
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. - Noam Chomsky
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. - George Ball
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. - M. H. Abrams
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. - Kurt Vonnegut
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect. - Oliver Joseph Lodge
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. - Anita Roddick
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. - Todd Solondz
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. - Edward Everett Hale
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. - Robert Nozick
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. - Henri Frederic Amiel
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. - Katherine Dunn
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. - Luis Bunuel
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. - Winston Churchill
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. - Lily Tomlin