Quotes About Survival

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

In school, I would run away whenever there was trouble, as I would get bullied a lot.

I wish I never got buried alive.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

My only success is that I am alive.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

I remember June 8, 1972. I saw the airplane. And it's so loud, so close to me. Suddenly, the fire everywhere around me. The fire burned off my clothes. And I saw my arm got burned with the fire. I thought, oh, my goodness, I get burned. People will see me different way.

I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

As human beings, we need to evolve with time, and if you fail to do that, your existence will suffer.

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

No one should suffer what I suffered. I still dread those scenes when man killed man. I lost my parents, most of my family, by running away.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

Without bread, there is no present or future. Without bread, life only suffers.

Various economists and experts had suggested increasing government spending to fight COVID-19, to help the poor survive. On the other hand, businesses were helped so that the jobs are protected. As a result, the fiscal deficit may look slightly high.