Quotes About Self-preservation

But until then, He has given us dominion, and with dominion comes the responsibility of defending ourselves. When God created the animals, He also instilled in them the instinct of self-preservation. And they defend themselves by either fight or flight. And when He created mankind, He also gave us the ability and the obligation to defend our lives and our families from all harm, whether evil or benign.

Ah, kako ljudsko bi?e ?uva sebe, štedi sebe, uvijek sebe! Jer bol drugoga nije tvoja bol. Samo tvoja bol te boli, samo tvoja bol se ra?una.

it's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel,...best to have your nerve endings cauterized.

But she wasn't a fool either. Better than anyone she knew how easy it was to become a victim. It didn't mean you were weak or stupid. It didn't mean you had done anything wrong. More often than not it meant you were unlucky enough to run smack into a giant douchebag bent on all manner of assholery.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

Wszyscy chc? naszego dobra.Nie dajmy go sobie zabra?!

Wszyscy chc? naszego dobra. Nie dajcie go sobie zabra?.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

One cannot save the individual in the world, one can only defend the individual in oneself. The spiritual man's highest achievement is always freedom, freedom from people, from opinions, from things, freedom to himself.

How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others, to serve interests which are not my own?

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

I wasn't unkind to him. I just didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to anybody, and I didn't want anybody talking to me. That was the plan.

it's like the laws of physics—for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.

Most criminal defendants talk their way into prison. Few talk their way out. The best single piece of advice I have ever given a client is to just keep your mouth shut. Talk to no one about your case, not even your own wife. You keep close counsel with yourself. You take the nickel and you live to fight another day.

If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Malcolm tosió y fijó la mirada en el infinito: —Seamos claros: el planeta no está en peligro. Nosotros estamos en peligro. No tenemos el poder de destruir el planeta... ni de salvarlo. Pero podríamos tener el poder de salvarnos a nosotros mismos.

Personally I would never help mankind. -John Hammond

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.

She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on, she says, so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout. (233)

Goldman Sachs did not leave the house before it began to burn; it was merely the first to dash through the exit—and then it closed the door behind it.