Quotes About Self-preservation

Su endurecimiento fue un mecanismo de defensa. Mientras más duro, menos heridas. Más duro, menos vulnerabilidad. Más duro, menos sumiso contigo.

I won't be a part of letting you destroy me.

Bad things can happen, and often do--And the way you survive is no one else's business.

Today.... I won't be a part of letting you destroy me.

No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Real or fake! Just as this post is doing. No one wants to be judged, but not everyone gets to see all side of someone. Fake, I don't think that's fake, I think that's Boundaries. I'm not saying to lie, just don't give everyone fully you. Everyone doesn't need to know you fully.

No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Real or fake! Just as this post is doing. No one wants to be judged, but not everyone gets to see all side of someone. Fake, I don't think that's fake, I think that's Boundaries. I'm not saying to lie, just don't give everyone fully you. Everyone don't need to know you fully.

No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Real or fake! No one wants to be judged, but not everyone gets to see all sides of someone. Fake, I don't think that's fake, I think that's Boundaries. I'm not saying to lie, just don't give everyone fully you. Everyone don't need to know you fully.

Call me selfish, but I want to keep as much of my blood as I possibly can, for as long as I can.

Most of us tried to keep our problems as private as we could, guarding those scary parts of ourselves like they were a treasure instead of a curse.

keep your head down, try to blend in, and don't get on anyone's bad side. You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.

There are two ways I would consider retirement. One is losing to guys who are not top-level competition. The other is if I started losing where it's like, 'OK man, you were knocked out viciously and staring at the rafters.' I won't endanger my health.

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

[On slavery:] We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.