"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Survival, Death, Choice, Hope

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Hiding, Size, Environment

"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Survival, Sanity, Struggle, Life

"She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Survival, Love, Respect, Truth, Happiness

"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Adaptation, Comparison, Wisdom

"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, American Author

Survival, Evolution, Glory, Poor

"To a man with an empty stomach food is god."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Survival, Food, God, Man, Hunger

"Sometimes the very things that we're expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let's die so that we can live."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Survival, Life, Death, Faith, Truth

Explore more quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

Life

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

President

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

Man

"Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available."

Warfare

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Motivational

"Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives."

Motive

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."

Intuition

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

Work

"The sergeant is the Army."

Army

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Will