To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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 a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

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.

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.