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Quotes About Survival

O que não é nosso num mundo onde tudo nos roubam?
~ Mia Couto
Padeci tais fomes que só não morri porque a morte não me encontrou, tão magro que estava.
~ Mia Couto
A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.
~ Mia Couto
As pálpebras são asas que nos restaram de um tempo anterior, quando fomos aves. E as pestanas são as sobreviventes plumas.
~ Mia Couto
Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.
~ Mia Couto
Todas as manhãs a gazela acorda sabendo que tem que correr mais veloz que o leão ou será morta. Todas as manhãs o leão acorda sabendo que deve correr mais rápido que a gazela ou morrerá de fome. Não importa se és um leão ou uma gazela: quando o Sol desponta o melhor é começares a correr.
~ Mia Couto
Na guerra, os pobres são mortos. Na paz, os pobres morrem.
~ Mia Couto
The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.
~ Unknown
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
~ Michael A. Stackpole
I thought about all the people who'd had to do this through history. The millions taking flight from disasters, fleeing tyrannical despots, making exodus from pogroms, escaping warring soldiers and pouring out of bombed cities. What had kept them going was the promise of safe haven, whether in some sprawling refugee camp or under the protection of a friendly army. We didn't have that
~ Unknown
Fortunately, as Jews, we were never short of excuses for entertaining. Most Jewish holidays, an old joke goes, can be reduced to nine words: "They tried to kill us. We survived. Let's eat.
~ Michael B. Oren
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
~ Michael Badnarik
One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.
~ Unknown
With insulin, the stone was rolled away, and diabetes became a matter of the quality of life, not the speed of death.
~ Unknown
Chinese technology, much of it stolen from the United States, was saving his life. How ironic, Michael thought to himself.
~ Unknown
Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said.
~ Michael Buckley
Welcome to the party," I say to them as more and more people gather to watch. "I'm telling my friends here that we have to fight together. We have to look after one another. This is about the end of the world, and we have to put aside our hate and fear of one another. If we can't learn to stand together by tomorrow, we'll all be lying together dead." — Lyric
~ Michael Buckley
4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them
~ Michael Buckley
For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.
~ Michael Buckley
Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.
~ Unknown
Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever it wishes.
~ Unknown
The giant fish devours the living and the dead and the inanimate. Bottles, tin cans, cuckoo clocks, truck tires, a whole sheep, an intact Newfoundland dog with its collar on, have all been taken from the stomach of white.
~ Unknown