Quotes About Self-preservation

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

Feeding a lion will not prevent it from feeding on you.

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.

Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Every man for himself.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

kill trhe beast before it kills you

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

The very wish to be right, down to its subtlest form of logical reflection, is an expression of the spirit of self-preservation which philosophy is precisely concerned to break down.

She didn't know how, but she understood that he needed to keep people at a distance, that he didn't want to know them, or see them, not really see them. Somewhere along the line, he'd been hurt. Deeply. And he was going to make sure it didn't happen again.

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

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