Quotes About Survival

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

It's good to be anywhere.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

War tore my family apart.

I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Some of the things I have done... of course I'm ashamed of in the past... was just to put food on the table and just take care of my family.

I have endured everything: hunger and thirst, want of money, want of clothes, of shoes, of linen, every cruelty that penury can inflict. I have blown on my frozen fingers in that pickle-jar of great men, which I should like to see again, now, with you. I worked through a whole winter, seeing my head steam, and perceiving the atmosphere of my own moisture as we see that of horses on a frosty day. I do not know where a man finds the fulcrum that enables him to hold out against such a life.

Where there are sheeps, there are wolves.

About a league out of Pouilly the coach was overturned. My luckless comrade, thinking to save himself, jumped to the edge of a newly-ploughed field, instead of following the fortunes of the vehicle and clinging tightly to the roof, as I did. He either miscalculated in some way, or he slipped; how it happened, I do not know, but the coach fell over upon him, and he was crushed under it.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

The bite of a mad dog, wolf, skunk, or other animal subject to rabies, requires instant and heroic treatment. Immediately twist a tourniquet very tight above the wound, and then cut out the whole wound with a knife, or cauterize it to the bottom with a hot iron; then drink enough whiskey to counteract the shock.*

The following recipe is from Abercrombie & Fitch s catalogue: "Skin and clean carefully four muskrats, being particular not to rupture musk or gall sac.

For humans, being able to 'forget' is what allows them to survive through their cruel and harsh lives.

During epidemics, the rich have nearly always outsurvived the poor. In some cases they've even benefited

On the plains and prairies either you learn to shrug off the unpredictability of life or else its dangers become too overwhelming.

They waited as in Kielce, Poland, where Peltz's father had run a hospital, returning Jews were hacked with axes in the streets while policemen watched.

Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the talents he enumerated in this fashion. The first talent was the ability to choose the winning side. Failing that, the second talent was the ability to extricate oneself from the losing side. And the third talent was never to make an enemy.

at a time when ethical lapses and blatant crimes pervade the political and economic and clerical landscapes (and has there ever been a time when, or a place where, such malfeasance was absent?), well-trained investigative journalists are essential for the survival of democratic institutions.

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?