Quotes About Self-preservation

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

I lift weights. I work out. I try to keep my body together - it's the only one I've got.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

When a totally offensive tax hits a few million people, Washington is prepared to look the other way. But when everyone is harmed, self preservation kicks in, and Washington gets going.

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Putting yourself in danger just to meet me or talk to me is not a sensible idea.

You can stay in situations just for the sake of it. That can be a very dangerous thing and tough on your soul and heart.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.

I don't want to elbow someone; I just defend myself.

As a younger guy, no one wants to be on a highlight or somebody's mix tape for their best plays of the year. For me, earlier in my career, that was something where 'I'm not sure if I should go for this,' not trying to get dunked on.

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

One: Don't kill yourself. Two: Don't kill each other. Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.

He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of time that inextricably adhere when so much more is erased, how do we account for their tenacity?

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.