Quotes About Survival

When you decide to die, Artemis thought sluggishly, it doesn't matter how many people want to kill you.

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.

Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.

We hebben het overleefd. Betekent dat dat we nu vrienden zijn? Door een traumatische gebeurtenis met elkaar verbonden?' … 'Ik vind dat ik niet betaald moet krijgen om een vriend te helpen. Hou dat elfengoud maar.

Deacon laughs. 'People like you and me, Dan, trouble sniffs us out. Maybe you can hide out for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually someone needs to be saved or someone needs to be killed.

Arthur scowled. "The green death-ray colors? Yes, I can see those. I would prefer to see them from a great distance, so can we please get out of here?

Wat is dat?' vroeg Holly en wees naar een grijzige vlek op de hoofdsteun van de stoel. Foaly schuifelde ongemakkelijk heen en weer. 'Eh... hersenvloeistof, denk ik. Bij de laatste opdracht hadden we een lek in de druk. Maar dat is nu verholpen. En de agent heeft het overleefd. Wel met een iets lager IQ, maar hij leeft en hij kan nog steeds vocht binnenhouden.' 'Nou, gelukkig maar,' mompelde Holly sarcastisch.

Ik heb het nog het best doorstaan, zou ze vermoedelijk ook niet bij de eerste de beste gelegenheid zeggen. Ik had alleen een geperforeerde long en een gebroken sleutelbeen. Je had moeten zien hoe de anderen eraan toe waren. - Holly

Don't think about it, Holly told herself. Don't think about the white-hot magma flow that's going to engulf this tiny craft. Don't think about hurtling toward the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside out. And certainly don't think about the blood-crazed troll ready to disembowel you with his tusks. Nope. Don't think about any of that stuff.…Too late.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Our lives are not good—it is not the Afghanistan we remember—but it is still life.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community-building. —Philip Gourevitch

And then I'm gonna step right into the wilderness. Just live on berries and shit. Not bother anybody. Not hurt anything. Something I have to do, man.

even this early in his career, Lincoln recognized slavery as the crucial question the founders had failed to resolve and the greatest threat to the survival of the republic. Condemnations

In recent years, historians have broken with the essentialist notion of Indians as noble primitives capable of change only as a form of decay. Rejecting that ahistorical fantasy, historians now define Indianness as an adaptability that interweaves tradition with innovation in a struggle for cultural survival in a transformed land.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us.

Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

In this business, he who shot last died first

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

Thomas K. Jones, an undersecretary of defense, played down the number of casualties that a nuclear war might cause, arguing that families would survive if they dug a hole, covered it with a couple of doors, and put three feet of dirt on top. "It's the dirt that does it," Jones explained. "Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around.