Quotes About Survival

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

From Mahmud Ghazni to Ahmed Shah Abdali, Punjab was hit by marauders so many times that we have learnt to laugh even at death.

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

I was able to see the lights coming from China. If maybe I could go where the lights are I could find something to eat, that's why I escaped.

When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

New York is tough on lonely people.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

I've lasted a lot longer than many thought I would.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

When I was young I lost everything.

Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

In March 2008, when I was 24 years old, a man I had been dating arranged for an accomplice to throw sulphuric acid in my face.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

Derk was sick of falling backward into his trench, but he never had time to invent a different way of being killed.

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain kinds of tasks better--logic, feats of memory, and so on. But if the IQ is much higher or lower than that, the window of creativity closes. Nonetheless, for some reason we believe more is better, so people yearn for tip-top IQs, and that calls for bigger memories. A fast, retentive memory is handy, but no skeleton key for survival.

Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so old they startle me. Must be I think of you as I do the rugged flowers that prove themselves over and over in the spring, that elsewhere might perish, but here master the earth, bloom into gangly lives of high color, and inhale the sun, knowing the land better than the land does. Hardy, savvy, they will outlive us all.

Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.

The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10 percent remain.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

Inevitably, fear raided everyone's mood. But as zookeepers, the Zabínskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.