Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.
With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.