Quotes About Survival

The world has always belonged to the stronger, and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

There, he was a lion. Here, he could end up being someone's lunch.

been shot four times.

our work is not a matter of survival, but a matter of responsibility imposed by God's command to maintain and proclaim the confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

It seemed strange in a way. Only a little more than an hour before, I was about to be killed by a homicidal maniac. Now I was going out for pancakes. I recalled one of my mother's cherished sayings: God works in mysterious ways.

I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner.

Love- the only human attribute that is indestructible by time, that is certain to survive time, if humanity itself survives.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

My ego has been trampled on more times than an old cigarette butt in the gutter

The worry isn't that the women won't survive; quite the contrary. The worry is that they might come and say that [prostitution] isn't such a dreadful job after all. And not only because all work is degrading, difficult, and demanding, but because plenty of men are never as affectionate as when they are with a whore.

Es la posibilidad de la muerte, la proximidad de la muerte, la sumisión al odio deshumanizado de los otros, que hace que esa noche sea imborrable. Para mí, la violación posee ante todo esa particularidad:

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

Genuine mathematicians do not gang up, but the weak need gangs in order to survive.

Every society is three meals away from chaos

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

The Indian always took two pairs of moccasins on his trips, because when one became wet or worn out, he always had a second pair handy.

The truck growled and roared and I was pretty sure it was going to eat me.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.