Quotes About Survival

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

she realised that he was probably right. Time was running out in so many respects—for our tenancy of a world that we were despoiling at an unsustainable rate as well as for the survival of our species in the face of nuclear proliferation. Obviously, this was evident from Hogget Road, Auchtermuchty, but not necessarily appreciated in the centres of world power. How frustrating it must be, she thought, for Mr. Archibald P. Raeburn to know this and yet to be powerless to do much about it.

He represents innocence, and innocence has taken such a profound battering in our times. We have mocked it. We have sullied it. We have put it in intensive care, and frankly, I don't see how it can survive. And yet here and there one sees flickers of its light – just flickers. And so we know that innocence isn't entirely dead." Angus

Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive

Bloody dogs," Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. "Safety on?" Dad always asked. "Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat's testicle.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

But he isn't dead?' 'No, he isn't, as you can very well see. Instead of striking him between the sixth and seventh left rib, as your compatriots usually do, you must have struck higher or lower; and these lawyers, you know, are not easy to kill off.

There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.

What good is a truck?" the man went on. "Can it forage for its own fuel? Can it go where a camel goes? Can it repair its own wounds? Can it sire more trucks? Machines are no good here in the Emptiness!

the competitive exclusion principle.

The girl I am now, this girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and narrowly. They took on a life of their own, a life that I was giving them now.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning." — Viktor Frankl (psychiatrist who survived a Nazi concentration camp and wrote about his experiences in Man's Search for Meaning)

Life displays mad hospitality. The Korean biologist Kwang Jeon of the University of Tennessee received in the 1970s a batch of amoebas infected with a deadly bacterial strain. Most died. In a set of careful experiments after culturing the survivor amoebas for several generations, he found that the survivors, with fewer bacteria per cell, could no longer live without their infection.

If Recsk had taught him anything, it was that for those intent on killing, life was the ultimate revenge.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.

to remain alive inside was far more intricate and difficult and defeating.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.