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Letter "S" » species
«It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Change,
Survival
| Keywords:
adaptable, intelligent, one species, species, strongest, survives
«I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Death and dying,
Living,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conceive, live-and-die, species
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
confined, human species, one species, privileges, species
«Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
continuation, dirty, dirty trick, played, species, trick
«Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
human species, including, indifferent, species, survival
«Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
belong to, communications, infancy, species
«Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at all costs, costing, costs, destroy, determination, likely, nation, species, survive
«Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
beware, opposite, rare, species, The Dead
«My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
derangement, faculties, species, volition
«Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bargain, bargaining, beasts, biologically, considered, formidable, in the bargain, one species, prey, preyed, preying, preys, species, systematically, The Bargain
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