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Quotes About Survival

The Snark eventually ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil.
~ Eric Schlosser
Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The
~ Eric Schlosser
Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do.
~ Erich Fromm
He had heard the voice of London that lives and breathes beneath the rumble of traffic, a voice like the continual high-pitched shriek you hear when you put your head beneath the waves of the sea. It is the sound of millions and millions of creatures living and struggling and dying and being born. It commands those who hear it to eat or be eaten..
~ Amanda Craig
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have seen you amused." "You exaggerate." "Nay, my memory is clear because on each occasion you came within a hair's breadth of getting us both killed.
~ Amanda Quick
As long as human nature is what it is, I'm afraid there will always be another war
~ Amanda Quick
Hell of a thing." Bad Jacket shook his head. "He survives that warehouse fire only to fall down a flight of stairs.
~ Amanda Quick
defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
~ Amartya Sen
Tell me how you prove coercion? How you prove the difference between being hit on and hunted? How you prove your arms were held down? Your body was touched? Your life was threatened if you ever told anyone? For people who have suffered violent sexual crimes, proof—the very act of proving—is more than just a burden. It is boundless bearing. An eternity of futility.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I've learned how to make a meal out of pain, how to brand my sorrow.
~ Amber Tamblyn
How can you go on living when you're now being lived in? When you've been invaded?
~ Amber Tamblyn
A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~ American Proverb
Merasa diperlakukan tidak adil kadang bisa menimbulkan luka, tetapi kadang juga bisa menyembuhkan luka, dan bahkan kadang juga bisa membunuh orang yang merasakannya. Tetapi bagi wanita, perasaan itu lebih sering menjadi alasan yang kuat untuk bertahan
~ Amin Maalouf
Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.
~ Amin Maalouf
Tant que j'étais là-bas, je me sentais incapable de partir. Maintenant que je suis loin, je me sens totalement incapable de revenir. Je suis comme le rescapé d'un naufrage. J'avais du mal à sauter du navire qui prenait l'eau, mais maintenant que je n'y suis plus, il ne me viendrait pas à l'esprit de remonter à son bord.
~ Amin Maalouf
le sentiment d'avoir été victime d'une injustice.Un sentiment qui blesse,mais qui met du baume sur la blessure,un sentiment qui tue parfois,mais qui,bien plus souvent,donne aux femmes de puissantes raisons de vivre et de se battre.
~ Amin Maalouf
Man has survived hitherto Because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either chnage them or perish. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
~ Amin Maalouf
Baz?lar?, geleceÄŸe olan inançlar?n? kaybetmedikleri için sabrederler. Baz?lar?, iÅŸi bitirmeye cesaret edemediklerinden. Korkakl?k hiç kuÅŸkusuz hor görülesi bir ÅŸey, ama gene de yaÅŸam?n düzenine dahil. T?pk? boyun eÄŸmek gibi, o da hayatta kalman?n bir arac?.
~ Amin Maalouf