Quotes About Survival

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Yes, I will sign a film for the money. Because sometimes you don't have the money to eat, and you have to get work and maintain a lifestyle. Not just actors - I think everybody does that. No job on this planet is about 100 per cent satisfaction. You do some part of the job for money.

It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

An empty stomach knows no morality.

What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.

había muy pocas posibilidades de encontrarlo, y todavía menos de que alguno de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros y tripulantes hubieran sobrevivido a la catástrofe.

Hasta ese momento habían cocinado la carne o la habían secado al sol, pero ahora no quedaba otra alternativa que comérsela húmeda y cruda a medida que la iban cortando, y como tenían tanta hambre, muchos comieron grandes pedazos que tuvieron que masticar y saborear. Para

Keep mashin' for your ration.

In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

Suponer que los balseros cubanos abandonan la isla por razones que nada tienen que ver con el régimen de Castro es otra alegre temeridad (...) Todo el mundo sabe que huyen de Castro y lo que él representa para el pueblo cubano en términos no sólo de hambre y penuria, sino también de represión política. Buscan no sólo medios de supervivencia sino otra cosa que han perdido en su isla de infortunios: la libertad.