Quotes About Survival

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?

But you'd best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground." "Fine words for a pastor," Jake said. "No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord," the pastor said with a straight face. "Now you're just making shit up," Jake replied.

Doggie Rayl was a perfectionist, and a man lucky to be alive to make the trip to the North Pole. Rayl was a signalman aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was sleeping topside to escape the heat below when the Japanese attacked. The explosions blew him overboard, and he managed to scramble to another ship. That is how he survived the Arizona's sinking.

America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.

She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.

The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, "one second after," the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

It could be worse, Shawn said... We're all sitting around this fire not knowing which one among us is the person who has been systematically picking us off... Now imagine that while we're sitting here, Reggie's head falls off his body, grows spider legs, and runs away into the darkness. The silence following Shawn's remark was the quietest Gus had ever heard. Even the fire stopped popping and sparking for a moment.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of timeAnd razure of oblivion.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

The very ratsInstinctively have quit it.

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,The hart ungalled play;For some must watch, while some must sleep:So runs the world away.

William Shakespeare