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Quotes About Survival

I had my answer now. Tristan not only survived, he spent the last five years practicing how to sound like the villain from a stage play. I allowed myself a weak chuckle. But I didn't feel like my joke was particularly funny.
~ Andrew Rowe
Because if everyone in this world waits for another Hero to save them, I don't know if this world will survive. And if I'm content to wait and let another person risk their life for me, I don't know if I'm worth saving.
~ Andrew Rowe
The key to survival is to learn to add more value—and
~ Andrew S. Grove
Adapt or die. Some
~ Andrew S. Grove
I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.
~ Andrew Smith
And if we were stuck here forever - and maybe this was just a naturally morbid thought for a teenage boy- I wondered who among us would die first and who ultimately would be left alone.
~ Andrew Smith
I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.
~ Andrew Smith
Progress will only get a guy so far, and it will never move beyond the wall of extinction.
~ Andrew Smith
The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.
~ Andrew Smith
Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
~ Andrew Vachss
You stand still, you get caught. You run, you get tired. So.... Learn to lie. Then learn to lie in wait.
~ Andrew Vachss
Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
~ Andrew Vachss
Stealing to eat ain't criminal—stealing to be rich is.
~ Andrew Vachss
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
~ Andrew Vachss
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
~ Andrew Vachss
Ship sinks or you falls overboard, all swimming's going to do is
~ Andrew Wareham
Ship sinks or you falls overboard, all swimming's going to do is make it take longer to drown.
~ Andrew Wareham
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
~ Andrew Weil
He hardly ate anything, and only stayed on his feet thanks to his lunacy. But that was a strong stick to lean on. He was not dying anytime soon.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
Our world is in equilibrium. The annihilation, the killing, of any creatures that inhabit this world upsets that equilibrium. And a lack of equilibrium brings closer extinction; extinction and the end of the world as we know it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
When there's hunger you don't share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I'm alive, she thought. So it's not the end of the fight. The fight only end with death, everything else is just an interruption
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper…so many I've killed.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski