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Quotes About Survival

We have this idea for a 'Where's Wally' type thing, except in ours, you'd have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. - Donegan
~ Derek Landy
Kenspeckle was your friend." "When all this is over, we'll see who's alive and who's dead and then I'll cry, OK?... Clarabelle's going to feel so bad when this is done with.
~ Derek Landy
Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery
~ Derek Landy
The sparrow flies south for winter.
~ Derek Landy
Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.
~ Derek Landy
We all go through tough times." "My parents are trying to kill me." "We all have issues.
~ Derek Landy
There's nothing more natural than dying from a knife to the neck. What would be unnatural is if he'd survived.
~ Derek Landy
The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen. The three of us are all that remain.
~ Derek Landy
If the world ends, none of that will matter.
~ Derek Landy
The Sparrow flies South for Winter" - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
~ Charles Darwin
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
~ John F. Kennedy
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
~ Saul Bellow
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
~ A. J. Liebling
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
~ George Reisman
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
~ Heinz Pagels
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.
~ Raphael Zernoff
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
~ Jack Welch
A lion never roars after a kill.
~ Dean Smith
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
~ W. Edwards Deming
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
~ Peter F Drucker
Deadwood did not kill itself!
~ Andy Hargreaves
Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
~ Neal Shusterman