Quotes About Survival

Inside, I had a pit in my stomach. What had the world become that children were now discussing their own death, as though it were a menu option? As I looked around and saw the blank faces clustered amongst us, I realized that our emotions might be the first thing we are forced to abandon in war. That the numbness that engulfed our senses was the only way we could sustain ourselves against all the chaos.

Something in Alaric's chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.

Peu glorieuse, la fuite ? C'est pourtant mieux que de se laisser attraper. Le seul déshonneur, c'est de ne pas être libre.

En el amor, veo una artimaña de mi instinto para no asesinar al otro[...]

Ci si innamora di persone che non si sopportano, di persone che rappresentano un pericolo insostenibile... Nell'amore, io vedo un trucco del mio istinto per non assassinare l'altro.

Tantos escombros dentro de mí. ¿Cómo vivir con tanta muerte?

Y, por último —y sobre todo—, porque una belleza que ha sobrevivido a tantos corsés físicos y mentales, a tantas coacciones, abusos, absurdas prohibiciones, dogmas, asfixia, desolación, sadismo, conspiración de silencio y humillaciones, una belleza así constituye un milagro de heroísmo.

No sabe lo que significa tener tanta sed y no tener derecho a beber mientras el agua fluye ante la mirada de uno, hermosa, salvadora, al alcance de sus labios. El agua te es negada a ti, que acabas de atravesar el desierto, por la incongruente razón de que no eres de su agrado. ¡Como si el agua tuviera derecho a rechazarte! ¡Menuda imprudencia! ¿Acaso no se trata de tener sed de ella y no viceversa?

Los pueblos tienen en común que han conocido a la fuerza el hambre en uno u otro momento de su historia. La escasez crea vínculos. Y proporciona cosas que contar.".

Dès que j'ai atteint mon indépendance, un logement habité par moi a d'emblée ressemblé à un débarras squatté par des réfugiés politiques, prêts à déguerpir à la moindre descente de police.

Por la ventana, la interminable Siberia, totalmente blanca de invierno, prisión ideal debido a su inmensidad. Los que huyen mueren perdidos en un exceso de espacio. Es

Très peu d'êtres humains sont réellement capables de suicide. Je suis comme la majorité, j'ai l'instinct de survie. Vous aussi.

Avanzó hacia mí con Hiroshima en el ojo derecho y Nagasaki en el izquierdo.

Huida poco gloriosa? Siempre es mejor que dejarse atrapar. El único deshonor es no ser libre.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.

High corruption and the influence of big business and the wealthy elite keeps the poorest Nigerians trapped in poverty and cut off from the benefits of economic growth and basic services. Some people - searching for the means to survive - became vulnerable to groups like Boko Haram.

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.