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Quotes About Survival

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down.
~ Flip Wilson
Chocolate cured just about everything, but being a crocodile's chew-toy was on a whole other level.
~ Desiree Williams, Illusionary
Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.
~ Mel Brooks
Lion dies with hungry but never eats grass
~ Sai Ram
The way I'd put it, " said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
~ Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
See, they say it's 'survival of the fittest', but you and I really know that it's 'survival of the most heavily armed
~ Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
alone but trying to survive alone.
~ Ujjawal Patel
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
~ Jayde Scott, A Job From Hell
Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they've forgotten how to hunt.
~ Maggie Georgiana Young
As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.
~ Will Cuppy
Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
~ Mercedes Lackey, Bastion
if any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it's a leg, of course.
~ James Dashner, The Death Cure
Water is the most essential element in life, because without it you can't make coffee.
~ Karen Salmansohn
If all else fails, stop drop and roll..works for me..:)
~ Melissa Mercer
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls
~ Terry Pratchett
In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.
~ Chris DiCroce, Burning Man
I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).
~ Andy Weir, The Martian
Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!
~ Tanya Masse
It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.
~ Stephen Herfst, Zed
There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.
~ Charlie Engle
It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2, 000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.
~ Gil Marks
We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
~ Kirk Douglas