Quotes About Survival

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

Bite them before they Bite you.

Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.