Quotes About Survival

If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They're going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.

In the twelve months from June, 1940, to June, 1941, our civilian casualties were 43,381 killed and 50,856 seriously injured, a total of 94,237. Except for

Even in famine the seed corn must be preserved.

Uganda is defended by its insects.

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Cierta gente huyendo de otra gente. En cierto país bajo el sol y bajo ciertas nubes.

Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it.   I'd

You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. The left. Because it was raining. Because of the shade. Because the day was sunny.

Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.

przecie my Swoje wychwala? musiemy, bo nas zjedz?!

I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

Leggo per legittima difesa.

The weeds turned into a jungle where spiders wolfed the ladybugs and wasps dive-bombed the spiders. A world where the new babies of one came from the dead bodies of others.

What you must do, said Monkey, is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.

Nunca creí que fueran necesarias tantas risotadas para sobrevivir a la tristeza. No es que esté uno contento con ser infeliz, sino que nadie puede serlo a toda hora.

We're all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. Thats no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made up of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

Although Darwin's theory of evolution discusses how the fitter offspring tend to survive, the reality is that whether or not an offspring will survive is mostly a function of chance due to the many possible wrong choices that exist for each right choice. Higher complexity organisms have more behavioral options, which in turn enables them to make more right choices.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?