Quotes About Survival

The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I've cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it's like on a bike.

People are deciding - if they don't like a particular point of view or a particular paper, it goes out of business.

Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

I'm not afraid of cockroaches.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to be Communists who weren't.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.