Quotes About Survival

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

Evolution never looks to the future.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I never expected to live this long.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.