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Quotes About Survival

There are two problems: i. Problems of today; ii. Problems of tomorrow, for the company that hopes to stay in business
~ W. Edwards Deming
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its saying where executivesWould never want to tamper
~ W. H. Auden
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
~ W. H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
~ W. H. Auden
Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself.
~ W. H. Auden
You were silly like us; your gift survived it all: The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth.
~ W. H. Auden
I have been played at being a HERO. But I could not bear how FOOLISH I felt every time I spared someone who was determined to kill me." -Elektra (Elektra #1, page 4)
~ Unknown
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
~ W. L. George
Truth, my friend, is food, shelter, warmth, companionship, and living to see another sunset. There, damn you. How much more elemental can you get? That's Truth.
~ Unknown
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Everything in this world is eater or eaten, seed is the food, fire is the eater.
~ W.B. Yeats
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.
~ W.C. Fields
The world is such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out alive.
~ W.C. Fields
We must love one another or die
~ W.H. Auden
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
~ W.H. Auden
She survived whatever happened; she forgave; she became.
~ W.H. Auden
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth.
~ W.H. Auden
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
~ W.H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, none without water.
~ W.H. Auden
The wolves will get you if the moths won't.
~ W.H. Auden
Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
~ W.H. Auden
On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live
~ W.S. Merwin