Quotes About Survival

When I was cowering in the ambulance, waiting for Joe Vik to come for me and Jillian, it was Detective Glenn who was outside trying to give us cover. Sure, I found my courage. So did Jillian . . . god, did she ever. But Glenn had it all along. He died. We lived. Would Glenn turn away and leave this man on his doorstep? This grieving man. Fuck me.

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

a hurricane.

How the fuck did you get away?" "Fear, man. Fear. It's your best friend." He pauses for a moment. "But you know that. Don't you?

Watch yourself. Don't think just because you survived one monster you'll survive the next. I'm alive because I kept running from them. Not to them.

my animal brain, my early warning system that listens for noises and looks for the signs of predators,

Vital organs and arteries matter, but so does the will to live.

Gentleness isn't always a virtue." He leaned on the counter, staring out the window into the dark. "The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

I'm wary of too-convenient explanations or mental boogeymen that exonerate us from being lazy and making bad choices, but I can't deny that the evidence is growing that a number of behaviors and diseases may not be due to defects in our genes, but to the survival mechanisms of the biome within us.

So you think I'll be all right?' 'You'll be fine. Everything will be fine.' 'As it could be?' 'It's always as it could be. Don't look for perfection. Look for—' 'Survival with a touch of pleasure, a touch of happiness?' 'It's all anyone can expect.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

I can be counted among the thirty million who voluntarily live in a country with annual plagues. A black death called winter that descends upon us all.

Certainly the fighting around the huge water-tanks on the hillside was continuous for 112 days from the second half of September to 12 January 1943. Historians simply cannot say, or even estimate, how often the summit changed hands, for, as Chuikov notes, there were no witnesses who survived all through the whole battle for it, and in any case no one was keeping count. At one point the life expectancy of soldiers there was between one and two days, and to see a third day made one a veteran.

I have tried very sincerely to adopt a neutral attitude of mind in the Spanish quarrel,' he told the Commons. 'I refuse to become the partisan of either side. I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazi-ism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of those dispensations

Churchill summed up the neutrals' position in a radio broadcast of 20 January 1940: 'Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.

A country like my own, Britain – which still occupies Gilbraltar captured in the 18th century, the Falklands captured in the 19th century and the Channel Islands which belonged to France until 1468, and rightly so in each case – is being absurdly hypocritical when it criticises Israel for retaining territory vital to her survival, which Gilbraltar, the Falklands and the Channel Island certainly aren't to Britain's.

General Konstantin Rokossovsky, one of those who were tortured during that time – though not shot despite his Polish origins – later said that purges were even worse for morale than when artillery fired on one's own troops because it would have to have been very accurate artillery fire

total, around 43,000 officers were killed or imprisoned, although 20,000 were later released.

The calm sea was the miracle of Dunkirk.

They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Tashday, the first day of classes. I hadn't been murdered in the middle of the night. Success! I didn't feel that successful, though. I felt exhausted, cranky, and a little bit numb.

My plan was pretty much to flee in terror and hope for the best.

He could have killed us both if he had wanted to.